On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 09:06 +0200, Fred Boiteux wrote: > Le 20/09/2019 à 07:21, Bastian Blank a écrit : > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:56:55PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > The netboot tarball misses virtio block drivers. > > > This makes it unnessecary tiresome > > > to install Debian VMs on not-Internet-connected server. > > This is intentional. netboot is for booting from _network_. On the > > network you got a distribution mirror, otherwise you have problems > > installing Debian anyway. > > > > Bastian > > > Hello Bastian, > > In fact the VM is actually booting from network, and has access to a > distribution mirror (copy of DVD-1 of Debian Buster 10.1), but the > debian-installer can't detect VM disk to be partitionned… I don't know > very well debian-installer internals, should it downloads a .deb or > .udeb for disk modules to be able to detect them ? I saw in previous > Debian versions some « virtio-modules » like : > virtio-modules-4.9.0-11-amd64-di, containing virtio_blk module, but it > doesn't exist in Buster, how the installer is supposed to get it ? It's in scsi-modules-<version>-di now. (I know it's not a SCSI driver, but that's where we currently put miscellaneous storage drivers.) The netboot installer should install that package and then trigger loading of the module. Have you updated the netboot installer since the point release? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example.
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