Installation • Unattended Debian installation with preseed: no disk detected

Hello,

I have the VM on VMware, the disk type appears to be a SCSI disk.
I have tried to plug a USB through VMware Remote Console, the installer detected the USB and apparently used it to carry on the installation and disk partitioning. I can see there is /dev/sda and its partitions but only sda and no other disks.

Is /dev/sda is the only disk device recognized in your VM ? You can check in the installer shell using the command:

Is this the only way we can recover the log file?

You could try exporting it from the Debian installed using the instructions showed in:

• Debian Wiki - Using Debian Installer as an ssh client

At partitioning step, the Debian installer should have already completed the network configuration. Therefore, you can enter the Debian installer command shell, change the current path, then move to the folder with deb packages containing the openssh-client-udeb package and install it:Then, both the ssh and scp commands will be available and, therefore, you an transfer logs using scp.


The other option is to follow instructions at:

• Debian Wiki - DebianInstaller FAQ: How do I copy d-i logfiles to a remote host?

In this case, you can start a little webserver inside the installer that will allow to access all the logs from a web browser of your VM host.

Hope this helps.

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[1] Using D-I as an ssh client
[2] Debian Wiki - DebianInstaller FAQ: How do I copy d-i logfiles to a remote host?

Statistics: Posted by Aki — 2024-01-20 02:27 — Replies 5 — Views 4427

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