[makno]

i tryed that but i seem to have a problem still. at some point while copying new files the vKVM drops and i have to restart it. If i boot from hd i manage to get to the bash login but it doesn't recognise the acount created. Trying another install now crossing fingers

[freshwire]

^ Yes what he said.

[DuncanBain]

eheh and again can you explain me how? all i found to partition the drive in the manager is at the end of the reinstall os but if i proceed i just get the os installed

After you install an OS via the manager the partition table is obviously changed to reflect the layout required, when you reach the partition part of an install using vKVM the partition layout will reflect this, you just then select what partitions you want mounted where, and whether to format them or not.

[makno]

I did not partition the drive. Partition it with OVH manager then proceed to just format the / partition.

eheh and again can you explain me how? all i found to partition the drive in the manager is at the end of the reinstall os but if i proceed i just get the os installed

[Ashley]

Someone really needs to make an absolute step by step

[DuncanBain]

one time it crashed when installing grub for me

Did anyone modify their /etc/network/interfaces or did you leave them as standard?

I modified /etc/network/interfaces to what was there from a default OVH OS install, I also removed the UUIDs from /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst and replaced them instead using /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 (/boot and / respectively) to avoid any conflicts with changes of the UUID that may occur when swapping from the vKVM virtual machine to the actual one on reboot.

[freshwire]

I did not partition the drive. Partition it with OVH manager then proceed to just format the / partition.

[Ashley]

one time it crashed when installing grub for me

Did anyone modify their /etc/network/interfaces or did you leave them as standard?

[makno]

Ubuntu Server 8.04 installs in vKVM easy as pie

do you mind telling me how you did it? i've tried 4 times and vKVM crashed each time after partitioning the drive

[Ashley]

I got bored of it, the whole partitioning with RAID's confused me - first time trying to set up a raid on Linux so I figure I'd just install OVH's OS and then disable SSH keys etc

[freshwire]

Ubuntu Server 8.04 installs in vKVM easy as pie

[wackomoo]

Couldn't you install their version and then remove/disable the SSH key etc, and then installing your own kernel from in the existing OS seems easier.

[gigabit]

Have a look through the boot logs - found at /var/log/messages on Fedora, no idea about Debian. Doing this helped me fix a "no connectivity" problem as for some reason eth0 was being renamed to eth1 during boot (which messed with all my IPs trying to assing themselves to eth0...).

[Ashley]

Since I can't help you directly, I'll just post a question: Why don't you install Debian via OVH's OS install panel in the manager?

Because that's OVH's own custom build of the OS which for security reasons, I do not want.

See here:
http://ovhwiki.com/index.php/OVH_%27Backdoor%27

[DedicatedPros]

Its a pain in the ass to do this via vKVM, seeing as it never quite works

[wackomoo]

Since I can't help you directly, I'll just post a question: Why don't you install Debian via OVH's OS install panel in the manager?

[Ashley]

This is a community discussion thread, not one requesting OVH support simply because I know installing your own OS is unsupported by OVH.

Anyway, I am attempting to install Debian Lenny 5.0 on my server, did all the vKVM stuff bla-de-bla - updated my /etc/network/interfaces with my external IP's etc.

I requested a reboot and well still cannot connect. Just wondering if anyone knows what else I need to edit to get this box online?

Cheers