How to access installation logfiles? - a failed attempt to install Debian Stretch in a virtual machine

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2016-04-17 10:46 GMT+03:00 Shlomi Fish <shlomif at gmail.com>:
> Hi Omer,
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:
>>
>> I found that there are layout problems in the Hebrew PDF file in the
>> debian-refcard package.
>>
>> To fix the problems, I am building a virtual machine (using VirtualBox)
>> for a Debian Stretch (Unstable) installation.
>>
>
> isn't Debian Stretch the current Debian Testing whereas Debian Unstable is
> called "sid"?
Unstable is always sid, testing is indeed stretch.
>
>>
>> I tried to install using debian-stretch-DI-alpha5-amd64-netinst.iso
>> but in middle, there was a message that installation failed.
>>
>> I was offered the possibility to access the installation logfiles from
>> http://10.0.2.15/
>> I tried but it did not work. Apparently installation was not
>> sufficiently complete to make it possible.
>>
>> Is there another way to access the installation logfiles, so that I can
>> file a proper bug report?
>
>
> You can try booting the VM with a LiveDVD/LiveCD , mounting the installation
> virtual disk and copying the relevant files to a user on the host machine
> using scp/rsync/sftp/lftp/etc.
As noted above the IP is in the virtualbox NAT space which you can't
reach from your machine, you might be able to reach it from a
different vm, but really the easiest way is to just change the network
type of the vm to either be bridged to your main network or to be
connected to the host machine, of course you would need to find out
what IP it was assigned assuming that the dhcp client of the running
installer is still functioning....

HTH,
Eliyahu - אליהו
>
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>
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>>
>> For now, I am installing Debian Jessie (Stable) with intention to update
>> later to Debian Unstable.
>>
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