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Bug#637784: marked as done (Please support installing on partitionless drives.)

Your message dated Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:38:03 +0900
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and subject line Re: Bug#637784: Please support installing on partitionless drives.
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regarding Please support installing on partitionless drives.
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Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal



-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: network
Image version: 20110106+squeeze3
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:32:45 +0900

Machine: Amazon EC2 t1.micro instance.
Partitions: 
Path: /dev/xvda1
Sector size: 512
Sectors: 2097152
Sectors/track: 63
Heads: 255
Cylinders: 130
Partition table: yes
Type: msdos
Partitions: #	id	length	type	fs	path	name
(0,0,0)	(0,0,62)	-1	0-32255	32256	primary	label	/dev/xvda1p-1	
(0,1,0)	(129,254,62)	1	32256-1069286399	1069254144	primary	ext2	/dev/xvda1p1	
(130,0,0)	(130,138,7)	-1	1069286400-1073741823	4455424	pri/log	free	/dev/xvda1p-1	


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Install base system:    [ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:    [ ]
Install tasks:          [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Overall install:        [E]

Comments/Problems:

I started the network installer through GRUB in the Amazon Elastic Comptuter
Cloud, and connected to it through a network console launched via preseeding.

I gave a couple of details on my website: http://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debiâneries/nuage/

While the detection of hard drives apparently went well (see attached
partman log), the partition step fails with the following error.


          ┌────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks ├─────────────┐
          │                                                 │ 
          │               No root file system               │ 
          │ No root file system is defined.                 │ 
          │                                                 │ 
          │ Please correct this from the partitioning menu. │ 
          │                                                 │ 
          │                   <Continue>                    │ 
          │                                                 │ 
          └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 
           
Despite being in expert mode with ‘low’ Debconf priority, the above is
the only thing I get at the Partition disks step.  I need to press Escape
to return to the main menu, as otherwise it loops.

I tried to format the virtual drive on its first partition or without
partitionning, but it did not make a difference.

Do you have any idea ?

By the way, this is the first time I made such an advanced usage of the installer
and I must say that I am very impressed.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Attachment: partman.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Attachment: preseed.txt.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Attachment: hardware-summary.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Attachment: syslog.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data


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Le Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:47:33PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> 
> I think that it would be great if somebody could extend debian-installer to
> install Debian on partitionless drives (like /dev/xvdb instead of /dev/xvdb1).
> 
> This would open the possibility to use debian-installer for preparing some
> preseeded cloud images in a very simple way.  Currently, this is done with
> ad-hoc tools developed from scratch.  Using debian-installer would also
> ease the convergence between cloud images and standard installations, which
> is wanted (see <http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/OfficialImages>).

Dear all,

through the use of the '--root-device-name /dev/sda' option, I can now boot an
image prepared by debian-installer on the first partition of a volume.  I do
not need anymore partitionless installations.

This opens the way to the preparation of "cloud" instances with only
debian-installer and a preseed file, at least on the Amazon Elastic Computer
Cloud.

More on this later on the debian-cloud mailing list.

Cheers,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

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