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

[Andreas B. Mundt]

Hi Ross,

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:59:01PM +0000, Boylan, Ross wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I guess this is:
     https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN/bootstrap/wheezy
very bottom.

> 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.

The second screen capture looks good.  The remaining six errors are
minor and can usually be ignored.  If you want to get rid of them add
the to hooks/savelog.LAST.source in the fai config space.

> 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.

All the logs are usually in '/var/log/fai/'.  During installation, the
'real' hard disk is mounted under '/target/'.  However, this
installation looks fine.

Keep us up to date!

Regards,

        Andi