[SUMMARY] Re: How to access installation logfiles? - a failed attempt to install Debian Stretch in a virtual machine

[Omer Zak]

Two people replied (thanks!).

borissh1983 suggested to mount the raw image and copy files directly
from there, using tools like: qemu-nbd, vfuse/vdfuse.
As an alternative, he suggested to convert using:
"VBoxManage clonehd --format RAW input.vfi output.img"
(disclaimer: the command was not checked)
and then mount directly the image.

shlomif suggested to reboot the VM using a LiveDVD/LiveCD, mount the
installation virtual disk and copy the relevant files outside using
scp/rsync/sftp/lftp/etc

I am saving the suggestions for future reference.

For now, I ended up installing Debian Jessie (Stable) and then upgrading
to Testing and to Unstable.

--- Omer



On Sun, 2016-04-17 at 09:25 +0300, Omer Zak 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> For now, I am installing Debian Jessie (Stable) with intention to update
> later to Debian Unstable.
> 
> --- Omer Zak


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