Anaconda-devel December 2004

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Re: Running genhdlist
by Manilal K M 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hi Eytan Carmiel, What I did to run genhdlist is as follows. : I created a directory /home/fedora/i386 and copied all the three CDs to that directory. >From there I changed the base directory name to 'Kairali'. So as my directory structure was something lke this: /home/fedora/i386/Kairali/RPMS/*.rpm and then I executed genhdlist as follows : /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers --productpath=Kairali /home/fedora/i386/ There was no errors and this worked fine for me. I think you have missed the complete path when specifying the installtree. compare and double check your commands. regards Manilal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eytan Carmiel" <eytan(a)thought.co.il> To: anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com Subject: Running genhdlist Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:52:54 +0200 > > Hi, > > I am trying to run genhdlist. > The RPMS are under MyCD/Fedora/RPMS. > The genhdlist is activated as follows: > > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers \ > --productpath Fedora MyCD > > I get the follwoing Error: > error opening directory MyCD/Fedora/RPMS: No such file or directory. > > But, as I have mentioned the directory MyCD/Fedora/RPMS exists !!!. > > Eytan Carmiel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Running genhdlist
by Eytan Carmiel 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hi, I am trying to run genhdlist. The RPMS are under MyCD/Fedora/RPMS. The genhdlist is activated as follows: /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers \ --productpath Fedora MyCD I get the follwoing Error: error opening directory MyCD/Fedora/RPMS: No such file or directory. But, as I have mentioned the directory MyCD/Fedora/RPMS exists !!!. Eytan Carmiel

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editing the HD install partition?
by Robert P. J. Day 05 Dec '04

05 Dec '04

i'm this minute in the process of installing FC3 over top of FC1, and carefully preserving my /home partition. i've selected a hard drive-based install, and i've got the FC3 isos in a subdirectory of my home directory. naturally, i'd like to set up the mounts so that the same partition is mounted as /home in the new install, but i can't edit that partition as anaconda claims that it's the install partition (correct) and therefore can't let me specify its new mount point (huh?). of course, i understand that you can't mess with the hard drive partition containing the ISOs, but is there any reason you can't at least assign it a mount point for the new system? obviously, i can just leave it alone and manually add the entry to /etc/fstab after the reboot, but is there any reason it's not allowed now? just curious. rday

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what all packages do we need to buildinstall utility.
by neeraj pant 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

hi all, i have tried many times with buildinstall utility provided in the anaconda-runtime but there is bunch of errors that i get with slight variations. At present i am not able to bring up my install images. Can anyone help me?? I have installed the following : anaconda anaconda-images anaconda-images .src.rpm anaconda .... .src.rpm anaconda-help anaconda-runtime how can i resolve this error ??? suggestions are invited.. Regards, Neeraj. _________________________________________________________________ The Citi Rupee Checking Acct! Send money home FREE! http://creative.mediaturf.net/creatives/citibankrca/rca_msntextlinks.htm Get a host of added benefits!

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Re: what all packages do we need to buildinstall utility.
by Manilal K M 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

hi Neeraj, pls post the errors you got while performing buildinstall regards Manilal > > hi all, > i have tried many times with buildinstall utility provided in the > anaconda-runtime but there is bunch of errors that i get with > slight variations. > At present i am not able to bring up my install images. > > Can anyone help me?? > > I have installed the following : > anaconda > anaconda-images > anaconda-images .src.rpm > anaconda .... .src.rpm > anaconda-help > anaconda-runtime > > how can i resolve this error ??? > suggestions are invited.. > Regards, > Neeraj. > > _________________________________________________________________ > The Citi Rupee Checking Acct! Send money home FREE! > http://creative.mediaturf.net/creatives/citibankrca/rca_msntextlinks.htm Get > a host of added benefits! > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Speaking of UUIDs..
by Patrick Devine 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hey guys, I recently changed anaconda to use partition UUIDs instead of LABELs in /etc/fstab to better accomodate machines attached to SAN storage. The problem comes from when anaconda sticks an entry like "LABEL=/" in fstab. This can lead to a machine accidentally picking up the wrong root partition if you have multiple machines all booting from the same SAN. At any rate, I have some patches which I can post if anyone is interested, but they're a little application specific so they'd probably need to be fixed up a bit to work with RHEL. --Patrick.

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anaconda: /usr/sbin/kudzu can not be run ?
by Matthew Bloch 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Hi there, I'm trying to put together a standard way of installing FC3 (and future releases) for our customers. We already have a knoppix rescue system that will boot any of our dedicated hosts, and I'd like that system to be able to install various distros from this customised knoppix distro: the first one I'm tackling by popular demand is FC3 (though we're a Debian and Gentoo shop on the whole, hence my cry for help :) ). So I'm in the position of having a local mirror of the FC3 distribution and have a machine booted with a configured network interface and read-only rescue filesystem. What I did was to grab /i386/os/Fedora/base/stage2.img from a recently-mirroed copy of the FC3 distribution, run cramfsck to extract it locally to a tmpfs disc, mounted proc and so on, then run "chroot /tmp/stage2 /usr/bin/anaconda ... " specifying http: as the method. It runs with a bit of terminal corruption, but I've hit two fatal snags: 1) "no such file or directory while creating journal" when trying to create an ext3 filesystem... worked around by choosing ext2 and using tune2fs -j afterwards. once I get past that I hit another one: 2) http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119447 "RuntimeError: /usr/sbin/kudzu can not be run" which seems impassable. The bug is marked as fixed, but without any explanation as to what conditions might cause it. From what I can see, it goes from "Processing depencies.." to a suspiciously short install, then to "Post-install" almost straight away and then this error. I assume it thinks the installation has finished and so kudzu will be present, but it doesn't and I can't see any errors to indicate what might have happened. Can anyone think of what I'm doing wrong? My kickstart disc setup is like this: clearpart --all --drives=hda --initlabel clearpart --all --drives=hdb --initlabel part swap --size=1024 --ondisk=hda part swap --size=1024 --ondisk=hdb part raid.0 --size=30000 --ondisk=hda part raid.1 --size=30000 --ondisk=hdb raid / --fstype ext2 --level=RAID1 raid.0 raid.1 I'm also selecting no packages for installation (and have tried installing "everything" as well just in case). Can anyone suggest what might be causing the problem? cheers, -- Matthew Bloch, Bytemark Hosting

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