Debian install over console

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:41:43AM -0500, Neil Watson wrote:
> An update.
> 
> The virt-install man page says:
> -x EXTRA, --extra-args=EXTRA
> Additional kernel command line arguments to pass to the installer when performing a
> guest install from "--location".
> 
> So using the CDROM option with extra-args would fail. I tried the location
> option and an unexpected error was returned.
> 
> ettin:/srv/virtual# /home/neil/neil/docs/it/kvm.sh
> ERROR    Only one install method (--pxe, --location, --cdrom, --import) can be used
> 
> ettin:/srv/virtual# cat !$
> cat /home/neil/neil/docs/it/kvm.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> 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/ \
>         -x "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8"eil Watson
> 
> I have yet to understand what the error means.

-c = --cdrom
So since you put -vcpus rather than --vcpus, it thinks you wanted -v and -c.

Right now you have --cdrom set to 'pus' :)

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