Installation in a Xen VM

Installation
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Yes installed this time :slight_smile: Software Selection was populated. Perhaps I had wrongly put “cdrom” in the boot string. To expand phillxnet’s guidance about disk partitioning. It should be:

Path: /boot
File System: ext4
Name: xvda1
Volume: NA
Size: 500mb

File System: swap
Name: xvda2
Volume: NA
Size: 2048mb

Path: /home
File System: btrfs
Name: home
Volume: rockstor_rockstor
Size: remaining (17gb in my case as I had a 20GB disk)

Name: root
Path: /
File System: btrfs
Volume: rockstor_rockstor
Size: remaining (17gb in my case as I had a 20GB disk)

So to summarise installing in a Xen VM:

  1. Boot off the vanilla, original Rockstor ISO.
  2. Choose Troubleshooting, press tab key on Install Rockstor in Basic Graphics Mode and change boot string to:
    vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=Rockstor\x203\x20x86_64 xdriver=vesa nomodeset quiet ip=dhcp
    in other words, simply remove this from the end of the string:
    ks=hd:LABEL=Rockstor\x203\x20x86_64:/ks.cfg
  3. Either choose VNC or Text interface when prompted. Fill in the options as required, changing the disk partitioning as above.

I think this is a simple enough workaround to warrant closing this issue about removing references to sda from ks.cfg.

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