[Pkg-xen-devel] Launching a Debian Xen Guest using a nfs://.../preseed.cfg -- the config is not found/used ?

[Ben DJ]

Hi,

I'm installing Debian as a Xen Guest on a non-Debian Xen host.

Using,

xm create \
  -c ./xm-debian.cfg \
  install=true \
  install-method="network" \
  install-mirror=ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian \
  install-arch=amd64 \
  install-suite=squeeze \
  install-kernel=./vmlinuz \
  install-ramdisk=./initrd.gz

I can get to the manual installer and stepwise do the install.

I'd like to setup a preseed-based autoinstall.

I've created a first/simple preseed file & made it available on an
nfs://  volume.

Reading @ (are there better / more recent docs?),

 http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg136362.html

suggests,

 " ... You can pass a NFS path in the form of nfs://$host/$path/$file
and network-preseed will mount the NFS share and copy the file to d-i
..."

Not really sure where/how to put this, I try adding to the above 'xm
create ...',

 ... \
 install-extra="url=nfs://192.168.1.2/srv/preseed.cfg"

At guest launch, I get no apparent error -- but, the pressed file is
not found/used.

What's the right syntax to use here to get the Xen Guest's installed
to see/use the nfs-available preseed file?

Thanks,

BenDJ