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

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Eliyahu,


On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 11:31 AM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Thanks for the confirmation.


> >
> >>
> >> 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....
>
>

Sure, but doing scp/etc. from the VM 's network controller to the host's IP
works fine here without all that, and I can also access the external
internet from the guest VM. (I can provide a screencast as evidence).

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish


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