How-To: Remote Debian installation

[Ashley]

Ok I've achieved it, managed to set up RAID1 (i hope) and done it all using vKVM and not rescue pro.

[Ashley]

Err hangon I'm stuck on installing grub at 50%

[Lilpaul340]

Great Guide

[monkey56657]

Thanks. Used this as a helper to installing ubuntu. Will post ubuntu guide within a few hours

[IainK]

Doesn't work well with soft raid on the EG 10 Hybrid. Played with a few things but couldn't get it to work. Not really got the time to play any more just thought I would post.

[derchris]

And what is not working?
I don't have a server with Soft Raid, but obviously, setting up Raid before doing the Debian install is a requirnment, and shouldn't be covered by this guide.

[monkey56657]

Software raid worked fine for me.. My ubuntu install was using soft raid.

[Matt]

hmm, does anyone know if this is possible with an RPS?
i tried the following a few times and it doesn't seem to want to come back online..

i set rescue mode in ovh-manager, then ssh'd my RPS and rebooted, then ssh again with the new rescue mode pass, then:

cfdisk /dev/sda
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda2
mkfs.ext3 -m 0 /dev/sda3
mkdir /di
mount /dev/sda2 /di
mkdir /di/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /di/boot
debootstrap --arch i386 lenny /di ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
echo "127.0.0.1 localhost" > /di/etc/hosts
echo "namerps" > /di/etc/hostname
nano /di/etc/network/interfaces

then entered (which i copied from the ovh RPS debian install):

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auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
address 178.rps.ip
netmask 255.255.255.255 


nano /di/etc/fstab

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/dev/sda2    /    ext3    errors=remount-ro    0    1
/dev/sda1    /boot    ext3    errors=remount-ro    0    1
proc        /proc    proc    defaults    0    0 


nano /di/etc/apt/sources.list

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deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main non-free
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main non-free 


i did use "mount --bind" and not "mount -obind" assume its a typo in the tut?

mount --bind /dev /di/dev
chroot /di
mount none /proc -t proc
apt-get update
apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 openssh-server module-init-tools grub
mkdir /boot/grub
grub-install /dev/sda
update-grub 
nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

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title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 


passwd
exit
umount /di/dev
umount /di/proc
umount /di/boot
umount /di

then i went to ovh-manager and set the RPS to boot from the hd, and finally entered:

reboot

anyone spot any holes in what im doing
i waited an hour and it didnt come back

[Matt]

Ttt

[enigmajr]

I'm fine up until I try to configure grub. The command update-grub returns:

Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.

Any ideas?

Originally Posted by Matt

i did use "mount --bind" and not "mount -obind" assume its a typo in the tut?

I'm pretty sure it wasn't a typo, so that could be causing some problems.