Re: Launching a Debian Xen Guest using a nfs://.../preseed.cfg fails -- Does required nfs:// support exist?
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> So, back to your remark: there is no decision instance, in Debian, to
> take a "supreme" decision and say to our users (who are always seen
> as potential contributors) "OK, you're told, there will never be NFS
> supprot for preseeding"...and I don't really doubt that someone coming
> with a fully-working implementation would have string arguments in a
> discussion.
>
> After all, this is mostly how the graphical installer project started
> a few years ago..:-)
Thanks for the comments; they're noted! Always a bit jarring to have
the first answers to your first question be, basically, "why? do
something else!", "not very important", or, simply, "no". So, we'll
see ...
> Any reason why you cannot use a HTTP or FTP server for preseeding?
Simply to "see it work" for me locally, and not as a solution we
can/will roll-out, I tried the http:// alternative.
ls preseed.cfg
preseed.cfg
wget http://mongoose.googlecode.com/files/mongoose-2.8.tgz
tar zxvf mongoose-2.8.tgz
cd mongoose
make linux
./mongoose -ports 80 &
ps ax | grep mongoose
7012 pts/0 S<l 0:00 ./mongoose -ports 80
8514 pts/0 S<+ 0:00 grep mongoose
wget -O result.cfg http://127.0.0.1/preseed.cfg
cat result.cfg
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US
d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select us
d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth0
d-i netcfg/disable_dhcp boolean true
d-i netcfg/dhcp_options select Configure network manually
d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true
...
xm create \
-c ./xm-debian.cfg \
install=true \
install-method="network" \
install-mirror=ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian \
install-arch=amd64 \
install-suite=squeeze \
install-kernel=./vmlinuz \
install-ramdisk=./initrd.gz \
install-extra="preseed/url=http://127.0.0.1/preseed.cfg";
launches the Guest, but proceeds -- as with nfs:// -- to completely
ignore the pressed file, now clearly made available over http://.
Not very encouraging from my end ... What am I doing wrong now?
BenDJ
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