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5.3.1. Installation on a diskless system
The first steps of a diskless iSCSI installation are identical to the Section 3, “Installation using debian- installer” [p. 8] section up to "Hard drive layout".
1. The installer will display a warning with the following message:
No disk drive was detected. If you know the name of the driver needed by your disk drive, you can select it from the list.
2. Select the item in the list titled login to iSCSI targets.
13 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation#lvm
14 http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html
15 http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/04/27/managing-disk-space-with-lvm.html
16 http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/man8/fdisk.8.html
3. You will be prompted to Enter an IP address to scan for iSCSI targets with a description of the format for the address. Enter the IP address for the location of your iSCSI target and navigate to <continue> then hit ENTER
4. If authentication is required in order to access the iSCSI device, provide the username in the next field. Otherwise leave it blank.
5. If your system is able to connect to the iSCSI provider, you should see a list of available iSCSI targets where the operating system can be installed. The list should be similar to the following :
Select the iSCSI targets you wish to use.
iSCSI targets on 192.168.1.29:3260:
[ ] iqn.2016-03.TrustyS-iscsitarget:storage.sys0
<Go Back> <Continue>
6. Select the iSCSI target that you want to use with the space bar. Use the arrow keys to navigate to the target that you want to select.
7. Navigate to <Continue> and hit ENTER.
If the connection to the iSCSI target is successful, you will be prompted with the [!!] Partition disks installation menu. The rest of the procedure is identical to any normal installation on attached disks. Once the installation is completed, you will be asked to reboot.