EVE-NG Pro ISO Installer

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rsxhawk
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EVE-NG Pro ISO Installer

Post by rsxhawk » Mon Dec 12, 2022 9:43 pm

EVE-NG Team,

I recently attempted to install EVE-NG Pro using the ISO you provided via your website but I noticed in the cookbook the installer does not give you the opportunity to actually choose what disk/partition you want to install EVE to. All you get is a warning that says:

"Selecting Continue below will begin the installation process and result in the loss of data on the disks selected to be formatted. You will not be able to return to this or a previous screen once the installation has started. Are you sure you want to continue?"

Which disk is it talking about? How can I edit/choose what disk EVE gets installed onto?

mlacomb
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Re: EVE-NG Pro ISO Installer

Post by mlacomb » Sat Dec 17, 2022 3:32 pm

Similar issue with Community - I was attempting to wipe out an install of esxi to do baremetal - and looking at the log cruising by, eve-ng decides to use /dev/sdb, which is most definitely not the boot drive. Any thoughts on how to pick which drive to format?

One thing that could be done is only present one HDD to the installer at time of launch, but this is something that should ideally be resolved with an install time choice.

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Re: EVE-NG Pro ISO Installer

Post by Uldis (UD) » Sat Dec 17, 2022 7:20 pm

I had answered it many times:
yes EVE iso this option is missed.

But:
instead you can use legacy Ubuntu Server 20.04 installation, complete it and install EVE manually on top of it.
Installing Ubuntu server choose only SSH server feature.
https://releases.ubuntu.com/focal/ubunt ... -amd64.iso

For EVE Community:

Code: Select all

wget -O - https://www.eve-ng.net/focal/install-eve.sh | bash -i
For EVE-PRO

Code: Select all

wget -O - https://www.eve-ng.net/focal/install-eve-pro.sh | bash -i
Internet and DNS in both cases is a must.
You must be as root user on your system to install EVE.

mlacomb
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Re: EVE-NG Pro ISO Installer

Post by mlacomb » Sun Dec 18, 2022 12:06 am

Thank you for the insight; I had not read that. Perhaps there should be a disclaimer on the page to download the ISO image to state that there may be issues when multiple drives are present? Not sure who's in charge of that, but that should eliminate all but the people who won't read it :)

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