Hi
How did u boot? pxe boot or via iso image? if iso image how was this presented? usb stick? if so how was the iso written to usb? dd works best in my experience.
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Alastair Munro
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Schreiner <anthony.schreiner@bc.edu>
To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org>
Sent: Wed, 25 May 2016 20:45
Subject: [cobbler] cobbler managing debian install no CD-ROM detected
Have been managing CentOS system with cobbler for a while, and decided to try to add Debian to the mix.
I loop mounted the firmware-8.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso image, which is current Jessie netinst + non-free firmware, and ran import as
# cobbler import --name=jessie --breed=debian --os-version=jessie --path=/mnt
task started: 2016-05-25_144840_import
task started (id=Media import, time=Wed May 25 14:48:40 2016)
Found a candidate signature: breed=debian, version=jessie
running: /usr/bin/file /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/jessie/dists/jessie/Release
received on stdout: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/jessie/dists/jessie/Release: ASCII text
received on stderr:
Found a matching signature: breed=debian, version=jessie
Adding distros from path /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/jessie:
creating new distro: jessie-x86_64
trying symlink: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/jessie -> /var/www/cobbler/links/jessie-x86_64
creating new profile: jessie-x86_64
creating new distro: jessie-gtk-x86_64
trying symlink: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/jessie -> /var/www/cobbler/links/jessie-gtk-x86_64
creating new profile: jessie-gtk-x86_64
creating new distro: jessie-xen-x86_64
trying symlink: /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/jessie -> /var/www/cobbler/links/jessie-xen-x86_64
creating new profile: jessie-xen-x86_64
associating repos
checking for apt repo(s)
adding apt repo for jessie-x86_64
Added repos for jessie-x86_64
adding apt repo for jessie-gtk-x86_64
Added repos for jessie-gtk-x86_64
adding apt repo for jessie-xen-x86_64
Added repos for jessie-xen-x86_64
*** TASK COMPLETE ***
looks pretty normal.
I have created a sub-profile based on jessie-x86_64 called jessie-precision670 (old dell workstation), but the only difference is the assignment of preseed file slightly modified from sample.seed as the kickstart. Then I assigned this profile to a system.
When the system installs, during the hardware discovery, it shows:
No common CD-ROM drive was detected.
...
and I cannot proceed. This seems to be before network detection takes place.
I first tried with the regular debian-8.4.0-amd64.iso image; the network driver is e1000.
Any suggestions?
Tony S