Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.
On Thursday, 9 June 2022 00:33:33 EDT David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 16:24:02 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:16:16 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 02:17:08PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > >
> > > Fourth: Use the text mode expert install.
> >
> > I have so far, but powered off to bail out when I couldn't figure out
> > what to do next. Before it wrote anything.
> >
> > > Document this step by step: write yourself a tasklist and tick off
> > > each small step as it completes.
> > >
> > > As someone who has done, conservatively, 500 installs - many with
> > > the
> > > text mode installer - it is not as hard as you seem to make it
> > > every
> > > single time. But, without knowing at what step you fail and
> > > precisely
> > > what you see when you do fail - what error messages, what it's
> > > telling
> > > you and what steps you are thinking of taking BEFORE you take them,
> > > I'm at a loss to know.
> >
> > The D-I needs to grow the capability to mount an otherwise unused
> > drive, and store as png's, snapshots of the screen. That way no one
> > can accuse me of copy/paste fibbing. I can also take screen shots
> > but the list server, even if I could figure out how to get it out of
> > the camera and submit them, would justifiably balk at the 5+ megs a
> > pix that would be.
> As you're using the advanced text d-i, it's very simple to take
> screenshots that you can include in your posts. They will look very
> much like the ones I post, because this is how I generate them.
>
> When you get to this screen:
>
> ┌────────────────────┤ [?] Load installer components from CD
> ├────────────────────┐ │
> │ │ All components of the installer
> needed to complete the install will be loaded │ │ automatically and
> are not listed here. Some other (optional) installer │ │
> components are shown below. They are probably not necessary, but may
> be │ │ interesting to some users.
> │ │
> │ │ Note that if you select a
> component that requires others, those components │ │ will also be
> loaded. │ │
>
> │ │ Installer components to load:
> │ │
> │ … … … … … … … … … … … …
> … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … │ [ ]
> nbd-modules-4.9.0-7-686-di: Network Block Device modules
> ▒ │ │ [*] network-console: Continue installation remotely using
> SSH ▒ │ │ [ ] ntfs-modules-4.9.0-7-686-di: NTFS
> filesystem support ▒ │ … … … … … … … … … …
> … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …
>
> │
> │ │ <Go Back>
> <Continue> │ │
> │
> └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
> ────────────┘
>
> select "network-console" as shown above.
>
> When the network has been configured, select this option from
> the main menu:
>
> Continue installation remotely using SSH
>
> It will ask you to type (twice) a password, and then tell you how to
> connect to the d-i from another machine:
>
> ┌────────────────┤ [!!] Continue installation remotely using SSH
> ├────────────────┐ │
> │ │
> Start SSH │ │ To continue the
> installation, please use an SSH client to connect to the IP │ │
> address 192.168.1.xxx fe80::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx and log in as the
> "installer" │ │ user. For example:
> │ │
> │ │ ssh
> installer@192.168.1.xxx
> │ │
> │ │ The fingerprint of this SSH server's host key is:
> │ │
> │ │
> SHA256:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> │ │
> │ │ Please check this carefully against the
> fingerprint reported by your SSH client.│ │
> │ │
> <Continue> │ │
>
> │
> └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
> ────────────┘
>
> which you do (from xterm on the computer with the most comfortable
> chair):
>
> ┌────────────────────────────┤ [!!] Configuring d-i
> ├─────────────────────────────┐ │
> │ │ This is the network
> console for the Debian installer. From here, you may │ │ start
> the Debian installer, or execute an interactive shell.
> │ │
> │ │ To return to this menu, you will need to log in
> again. │ │
> │ │ Network console
> option: │ │
>
> │ │ Start installer
> │ │ Start installer (expert
> mode) │ │ Start
> shell │ │
> │
> └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
> ────────────┘
>
> Select the middle option here, and then continue installing from
> the main menu option:
>
> Set up users and passwords
>
> >From your xterm, you can cut and paste text in the usual manner,
>
> without any problems of image size. If you're used to using the Alt-F2
> through F4 screens on the d-i, just login again from another xterm
> and choose "Start shell". For an F4-like log, start a shell and type:
>
> # tail -f /var/log/syslog
>
> I always install my systems in this manner from my normal workstation.
This IS my normal workstation. But I imagine that I could reverse the
path from one of my Dells dedicated to a task. Only one has a comfy chair
though, the one normally running my biggest milling machine, out in the
garage. I'll take my coffee cup out and try this from there.
> PS, I wouldn't try to revert to using the d-i on the original
> screen once you're running it remotely, except that you might
> find it handy to leave the original screen showing the F4 log.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
> .
printed FFR, thanks David. I was not aware that all that was possible.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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