[debian-lan-devel] Problems installing debian-lan_wheezy_20140302_amd64.iso

[Boylan, Ross]

Here are slightly more details of the problems I've had installing the mainserver, with combined gateway, in an amd64 virtual machine (VirtualBox running on Windows 7 64 bit).

Second try failed as shown in the first screen capture.  The archives suggested that installs may fail on an already formatted disk (which this was, from my initial attempt).  So I used parted to put a new GPT partition table in place and restarted.

Third try failed apparently the same way as my first attempt.  Second attached screen capture gives some diagnostics; everything in error.log is on the screen.  Inspection of fai.log showed that most of the errors concerned packaging conflicts or ambiguities related to apache and (less sure of this) gdm3.  There was also a much later failure in which df reported that it was unable to find some file.  I suppose this blocked grub, since no boot loader shows on reboot.

I tried to capture the logs by copying them under /root and then mounting the disks on another VM.  However, there was no trace of the logs when I did so.  (Because I was running in the installation environment on a RAM disk?)  I also couldn't ssh out to copy the files, I think because I hadn't set the VM networking properly so that the installation machine could see my other VM.

Ross
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