Debian install over console

[Neil Watson]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 09:57:03AM -0500, Russell Reiter wrote:
>What about the baud rate in this line?	
>
>--nographics --autostart -x "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8"

I'm not sure what you mean.  I changed to single quotes but that did not
help.  virt-install log shows this:

[Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (cli:192) Launched with command line:
/usr/bin/virt-install -n nwtest --description Test host -r 512 -vcpus 1 --os-type=linux --os-variant=debiansqueeze --disk /srv/virtual/nwtest,device=disk,bus=virtio,size=3 --network bridge=br0,model=virtio --nographics --autostart -l http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/ -x console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8
[Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (cli:216) Requesting libvirt URI default
[Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (cli:218) Received libvirt URI qemu:///system
[Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (virt-install:473) Requesting virt method 'hvm', hv type 'default'.
[Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (virt-install:795) Received virt method 'hvm'
[Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (virt-install:796) Hypervisor name is 'kvm'
[Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (virt-install:330) parse_disk: returning {'format': None, 'bus': 'virtio', 'readOnly': False, 'volInstall': None, 'path': '/srv/virtual/nwtest', 'device': 'disk', 'volName': None, 'conn': <libvirt.virConnect instance at 0x1962950>, 'size': 3.0, 'driverCache': None, 'shareable': False, 'sparse': True}
[Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (VirtualDisk:864) Path '/srv/virtual' is target for pool 'neil'. Creating volume 'nwtest'.
[Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] ERROR (cli:196) Only one install method (--pxe, --location, --cdrom, --import) can be used


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