Hi Tony:
Can you check the apache log to see if the Debian-installer try to get seed file from cobbler server?

slgray

On May 26, 2016 04:50, <alastair@alastair-munro.com> wrote:

Ah yes i remember you.

Personally i would stick with something more mainstream like Ubuntu LTS something. Enterprise Linux still makes the best servers imho.

We pxe build ubuntu 12.04 but the developers have now seen the benefit of using centos. we have ubuntu 14.04 pxe booting too but its not used much at our site.

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Alastair Munro

-----Original Message-----
From: Locane <locane@gmail.com>
To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org>
Cc: anthony.schreiner@bc.edu
Sent: Wed, 25 May 2016 21:36
Subject: [cobbler] Re: cobbler managing debian install no CD-ROM detected

Hey that's me!

I can't remember where I ended up with this, but I got farther with that guy's suggestion.  I ended up abandoning it for other more pressing projects.

I do remember it still not working totally.

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 1:33 PM, <alastair@alastair-munro.com> wrote:

http://serverfault.com/questions/754360/debian-8-3-0-pxe-installer-asking-for-cdrom

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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 21:23
Subject: [cobbler] Re: cobbler managing debian install no CD-ROM detected

Failed to reply to the list, resend.

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Tony Schreiner <anthony.schreiner@bc.edu> wrote:

PXE boot with whatever the cobbler profile provides

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 4:17 PM, <alastair@alastair-munro.com> wrote:

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

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