On 12/08/18 00:16, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 22:58 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > [...] >> I'm mostly familiar with the netinst image, and it's what I generally >> use to install on real hardware. >> >> I'm less familiar with netboot, but have used it for PXE installs (right?) >> >> What I'm missing is how I can use either of them on a remote KVM VPS, >> where I get to see the boot process on some kind of remote console, and >> I have the opportunity to provide a bootable ISO, but not much else. >> >> I've tried providing the netinst ISO, and it boots but can't find itself >> for installing packages. > > OK, so you're only providing the netinst ISO? Somehow I got the > impression that you were providing a separate initramfs. Sorry for the > irrelevant answer. > >> Is that a matter of the appropriate storage drivers not being included, >> or is it the way the VPS provider set up the virtual CD? > > It's both! libvirt can provide (through QEMU) an emulated CD drive > attached to an Intel PATA controller, Intel SATA controller, LSI Logic > SCSI controller or virtio SCSI controller. I've just verified that the > installer works for all of the first three options, but not virtio. > > If there's an option to configure the CD drive to be attached through > one of the other controllers, you should choose that. But we should > also add virtio drivers to the standard installer initramfs. Great, thanks heaps for all that effort. I don't think there's (currently) a way to attach it differently (though I could request that, and they well might do it - which might help people who want to install other distros too). But in the meantime, can I tell the installer to download a different initramfs which will work? Or does one of the other installer ISOs (ie not the netinst ones) come with a suitable initramfs? Thanks, Richard
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