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God I hate the java IPMI thingy on the Kimsufi. I can mount the ISO for Centos but the installer does not want to start in graphics mode because the ISO is mounted over the internet and it takes way too long, Wayland says "not today, you're too slow".
So anaconda defaults to text mode... In German... perhaps because the server is in LIM? I'm now considering installing a desktop linux (or Windows) on a VPS nearby and trying from there, with a lower latency.
netboot.xyz. mount/ use this.
I do not know to do pxe boot, but this has helped get a GUI for the OS installs without the slowness.
Thanks for pointing that out! You are right, BF is later this year. So possibly they will start around the 26th. 😄
Challenge accepted!
Once chaplenge is complete, report back your findings.
It is not an exactly reply, however I tried these solutions with success.
Boot into the rescue system and make sure that no RAID arrays
cat /proc/mdstatIf present, stop
mdadm --stop /dev/md126(Replace 126 with array number and repeat if neccessary)
Wipe disks
wipefs -a /dev/sdaAnd on other disks, replace sda with nvme if nvme present.
If you want to install Debian, you can do a debootstrap chroot install with manual partition preparation, debootstrap and installing kernel, grub (based on boot method) and others.
If you want to use graphical installer, you can do it too.
Install Qemu
apt install qemu-system-x86This need to run a VM with installer on the disks.
Download the CentOS installer with wget.
Run the installer
# qemu-system-x86_64 \ -enable-kvm \ -nodefaults \ -cdrom <path-to-iso> \ -hda /dev/sda \ -hdb /dev/sdb \ -m 4G \ -net nic -net user \ -vga std \ -vnc localhost:0 \ -usbdevice tablet \ -k en-usIt allows the unprotected VNC only from localhost (dangerous to allow it from internet), so create an SSH tunnel. On Win10 and 11 OpenSSH built-in, so in CMD:
ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 root@serverConnect to localhost:5900 with a VNC client and do the installation.
Set DHCP on your primary interface to network-manager and if everything goes well, when you reboot after Qemu install, your server will boot with CentOS or Fedora or other and you can access them. If no, you can go back to rescue and check the logs, or open a serial console and login from browser or SSH to determine the cause the problem.
I tested this method with BIOS boot method on a KS-LE-1 2022 edition. IF your server requires UEFI I think that you need an EFI-compliant emulation in Qemu.
PS: I install all of my OVH servers with Debootstrap, both on UEFI and legacy because I do not prefer cloud-init method on a bare-metal server and I use encrypted disks with remote unlock that not possible from OVH templates.
With this method, do you boot from the local drives or with pxe ?
The KS from the flash sales have an UEFI PXE boot, and when changing this with efibootmgr, it's always reset to the default OVH config.
Currently have an old KS-10 with Intel i5-2300, 16GB DDR3 1333 MHz, 2TB SATA and paying €17.15 (Euros) incl tax per month. Just wondering whether it would be worth going for one of these sale servers instead. I see many are out of stock and there is also a setup fee to pay. I see as a UK customer any new servers would be charged in GBP rather than Euros.
I'm currently using it for website hosting - I host a few of my own websites on it. Looks like there are savings to be made and getting higher spec server in return (when they are back in stock).
So I tried hard-ish.
First I was able to boot in netboot.xyz by mounting the ISO.
Then I managed to boot the provided Centos 9 Stream installer in graphics mode. Yeah.
But I wanted Centos 10 because I want to test that... and it's not yet available in the menu.
So I forked the netboot.xyz-custom repo to make my own menu and managed to have that menu displayed. I tried to populate the custom file so that it would boot an ISO that I had on a webserver not too far, but that never worked.
I'm going to take a break!!
Thanks
I've done that in the past with older Kimsufi with no IPMI and I managed to install Windows on them.
But this time I had IPMI so I wanted to make that work!
Will keep this as a backup option though!
You come too late for the current sales, unless you find someone who is willing to transfer one of their servers, which is quite unlikely.
The coming Black Friday event will have different limited edition Kimsufi servers (they were listed in this thread a few times) which will be much better that what you have, depending on the price (which we don't know yet).
That's annoying. I thought the current sale had only just started.
Can you please give old good a href to the list? Can't find any on the last 10 pages
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It started on Nov 5th. Officially it ends tomorrow but I don't see a restock happening in the last hours.
I see that the KS-LE-C and KS-LE-D are showing as stock available only for Canada though.
Yes they are the last ones available.
Here you go.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4064416/#Comment_4064416
KS-LE-C SSD BHS2 Servers Delivered in the Last Few Days
32GB > 64GB Upgrade
Does anyone need it?
I'm looking to replace it with a KS-LE-B.
what location?
BHS2
Can you throw a yabs?
Why final day?
BF starts soon, look a few pages before, bottom text, OVH ends these sales today.
Last year, according to archive.org, they launced their BF offers on weds 22 Nov 2023, so 2 days before.
So I wouldn't expect any deals until next wednesday, 27th Nov 2024.
You can try their previous voucher codes though for free setup, i.e. BFSETUP - they may work sooner.
Do we have to code a bot now to check if and when the promo codes work?
My installation is Windows, is there a Windows version of the script?
Linux Subsystem for Windows
Does anyone have KS-6 for transfer? 128GB RAM + Nvme drives?
It will be easier to install the OS using rescue mode.