Deploying Debian images

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Am I correct in thinking that to deploy Debian images the commercial Ubuntu Advantage is needed
https://docs.maas.io/2.5/en/installconfig-images

2

Not truly correctā€¦ You can deal with it! (I successfully did) But I guess you will get good support if you purchase the commercial version :slight_smile:

3

As anyone been able to boot Debian images? I can upload an image but it looks like the following when the machines boots.

#Image upload.
maas coldadmin boot-resources create name=custom/debian99 title=ā€œDebian 9.9ā€ architecture=amd64/generic content@=/home/coldadmin/debian-9.9.1-20190515-openstack-amd64-source.tar.gz
maas coldadmin boot-resources import

#Output from curtin when the machines attempts to load the Debian image.
ā€˜IDā€™
curtin: Installation failed with exception: Unexpected error while running command.
Command: [ā€˜curtinā€™, ā€˜curthooksā€™]
Exit code: 3
Reason: -
Stdout: ā€˜IDā€™

Stderr: ā€˜ā€™

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have you updated your curtain config on the region controller. when using snap 2.9 you can create a file in /var/snap/maas/current/preseeds/curtin_userdata_custom with the following.

#cloud-config
kernel:
  fallback-package: linux-image-amd64
  package: linux-image-amd64

apt:
  preserve_sources_list: true

early_commands:
  000_update_repositories: apt update
  010_install_apt_https: apt install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates efibootmgr xfsprogs

debconf_selections:
 maas: |
  {{for line in str(curtin_preseed).splitlines()}}
  {{line}}
  {{endfor}}

late_commands:
  maas: [wget, '--no-proxy', '{{node_disable_pxe_url}}', '--post-data', '{{node_disable_pxe_data}}', '-O', '/dev/null']```
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how do you resolve the problem ? can you explain with more detail? thank you.

6

I found these very helpful
https://github.com/juan-vg/maas/wiki/Create-a-Debian-9-(Stretch)-image-that-works-with-UEFI-secure-booting
https://askubuntu.com/questions/882911/how-do-i-use-maas-to-create-a-debian-image

although Iā€™m still struggling with debian 10 Debian10 fails on final reboot

7

thank you very much;
i am dealing with debian10, i am sink into the same issueļ¼›
there is no 90_*.cfg fileļ¼› so the cloud-init act as no datasource.
have you already resolved the problem? i am going to debug the curtin source code怂

8

Have you been able to make Debian 10/11 working in the end ?

9

closing this thread, deferring all comments to Debian10 fails on final reboot.