Re: Queries about netboot deployment of Debian Squeeze
Awesome information John, really helpful.
Unfortunately I could not get the dhcp timeout problem under control.
It was already the third d-i line from the top, making it the second
under netcfg/choose_interface made no difference.
I am posting this to the list in the hopes that someone else has found
a way to solve this notorious issue.
2011/6/15 Stefan Midjich <stefan.midjich@gmail.com>:
> Awesome information John, really helpful.
>
> Unfortunately I could not get the dhcp timeout problem under control.
> It was already the third d-i line from the top, making it the second
> under netcfg/choose_interface made no difference.
>
> I am posting this to the list in the hopes that someone else has found
> a way to solve this notorious issue.
>
> 2011/6/14 John Morrissey <jwm@horde.net>:
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 08:48:39AM +0200, Stefan Midjich wrote:
>>> The dhcp timeout setting is not respected, I have tried it in many
>>> variations found online and many different values but none have
>>> worked. The progress bar never waits more than 20 seconds and I have
>>> to retry 1-3 times every deployment. I get paid to press enter, up,
>>> up, enter but I think it's quite embarrassing to not have it fixed.
>>>
>>> d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout string 120
>>> d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout=120
>>
>> I ran into this, too. d-i probably hasn't read your preseed file at the
>> point it's configuring the network, so try setting the timeout earlier, such
>> as on the kernel command line:
>>
>> LABEL squeeze
>> kernel squeeze/amd64/vmlinuz
>> append [...] netcfg/dhcp_timeout=90
>>
>>> The other question is about late_command and in-target, can I somehow
>>> chroot myself into /target and finish the installation with a fully
>>> working Debian system? I've tried doing this by running a bash script
>>> using chroot, and also in-target prefixed to the command but chroot
>>> didn't work at all and in-target gave me errors. So since I can't get
>>> it right I would love to see someone elses take on this because right
>>> now we create an rc.local script that we clobber just before rebooting
>>> one final time. This is something I would like to get done during the
>>> install process instead.
>>
>> We retrieve a postinst script using wget(1) and run it chrooted like this:
>>
>> d-i preseed/late_command string wget -O /target/postinst http://url/to/postinst && chmod 755 /target/postinst && debconf-disconnect bin/in-target /postinst && rm /target/postinst
>>
>> john
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> Med vänliga hälsningar / With kind regards
>
> Stefan Midjich
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