Anaconda-devel April 2004

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WHich RPM do I need to modify comps.xml
by Chan, Dominic 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

Can anyone tell me which RPM I need for the following binary to modify my comps.xml /usr/share/comps-extras/getfullcomps.py comps.xml dwc Both the individual sending this e-mail and The Lubrizol Corporation intend that this electronic message be used exclusively by the individual or entity to which it is intended to be addressed. This message may contain information that is privileged, confidential and thereby exempt and protected from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication, or the use of its contents, is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication and are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the original message from your e-mail system. http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/cliquez_ici_pour_traduction_en_francais.… http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/F�r_die_deutsche_�bersetzung_bitte_hier_… http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/Clicar_aqui_para_vers�o_em_Portugu�s.htm http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/D�_un_clic_aqu�_para_su_traducci�n_al_es… http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/Chinese.htm http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/Japanese.htm

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RE: FW: Missing RPM
by Chan, Dominic 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

First thank you for the feedback, and sorry for the footer at the bottom, it gets added by our mail server and it is require by Legal. IN my situation, where I am combining selected RPM from all 4 CD into 1, thus overall, deleting the overall RPMS, do I need to rebuild my pkgorder? 2nd, where is the original pkgorder located at? Dwc p.s. I guess I don't need buildinstall, since I am not modifying anaconda looks and feel -----Original Message----- From: anaconda-devel-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:anaconda-devel-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Pianta Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 4:50 PM To: anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com Subject: Re: FW: Missing RPM Chan, Dominic wrote: >Can you tell me what exactly does pkgorder and buildinstall do? Is it >require? > >dwc > > mmm it seems Forrest has been a bit busy lately so I will try to relieve a bit of work for him ... pkgorder when run normally will give you an ordered list of your rpm packages - in the order that they will be installed on the system. You can modify this file if you wish and rearrange the order of package installation. Then you pass your modified file to the genhdlist command and your changes will take effect next time you run your install. buildinstall is a tricky one. You need it if you have modified anaconda source. It rebuilds all of the .img files in the /base directory and applies your custom changes to anaconda. You don't need to run buildinstall if you haven't modified the anaconda source (or if you are using the RHupdates option to make any customizations to anaconda). I'm certainly no expert but I hope that clears some stuff up for ya! (p.s. - are you absolutely required to add that annoying signature to all emails?) pantz -- Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes ... That way when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes! _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list Both the individual sending this e-mail and The Lubrizol Corporation intend that this electronic message be used exclusively by the individual or entity to which it is intended to be addressed. This message may contain information that is privileged, confidential and thereby exempt and protected from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication, or the use of its contents, is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication and are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the original message from your e-mail system. http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/cliquez_ici_pour_traduction_en_francais.… http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/F�r_die_deutsche_�bersetzung_bitte_hier_… http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/Clicar_aqui_para_vers�o_em_Portugu�s.htm http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/D�_un_clic_aqu�_para_su_traducci�n_al_es… http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/Chinese.htm http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/Japanese.htm

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exec of anaconda failed:
by Stephen Mah 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

Getting a exec of anaconda failed: No such file or directoryinstall exited abnormally, (occurs after ran buildinstall) booting from a network boot CD. I'm attempting to customize anaconda. After rebuilding the anaconda rpms, I copy them to the i386/RedHat/RPMS folder. When I copy hdstg2, netstg2, and stage2 to the base folder it fails. This is a kickstart network install. I created a new CD boot disk with the corresponding initrd file. Incidentally the stage 2 files seems to be slightly smaller than the stock RHEL3 files. I'm I missing a step? -steve

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custom fedora missing /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom dirs
by Paul Pianta 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

hi people i have been happily working away on a custom fedora distro for a while and have recently come across a problem i thought i had solved. (i was seeing the same problem with a custom rh7.3) my install goes great - all packages are installed - no errors to be seen in any of the other consoles during installation - BUT - the default directories in /mnt are not created. ie. /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy are never created. this is strange because versions of my earlier custom fedora distro were creating these directories (i was checking!). Then i thought the problem was solved so i stopped checking after each install. Then a couple of weeks since my last check - I reinstalled a newer version of my custom fedora and discovered that the directories are now not being created. The only things that I have changed are - adding new packages to RPMS directory and adding these same package names to comps.xml. An rpm -qf /mnt/floppy tells me that it is the 'filesystem-2.2.1-5' rpm that creates the directories. I have not touched any of the 'core' or 'base' fedora packages. I get the feeling that it could be something to do with pkgorder but as you can see below - 'filesystem' is installed pretty early on ... head of my pkgorder.txt file created with 'pkgorder /data/Fedora-Test/i386 i386 Fedora | tee /data/Fedora-Test/pkgorder.txt' ... fedora-logos-1.1.20-1.noarch.rpm hwdata-0.103.1-1.noarch.rpm libgcc-3.3.2-1.i386.rpm setup-2.5.27-1.1.noarch.rpm filesystem-2.2.1-5.i386.rpm basesystem-8.0-2.noarch.rpm termcap-11.0.1-17.noarch.rpm tzdata-2003d-1.noarch.rpm glibc-common-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i686.rpm ... any ideas?? thanks pantz -- Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes ... That way when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes!

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AW: Remove Selection
by Kohlmeier, Markus 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

Thank you for your fast response. I will have a look at the webpage you have posted. Thank you very much. Markus Kohlmeier, Markus wrote: > Hello togehther. > Is it possibel to remove the "Everything" and "Minimal" Check Box in > the graphic installation ??? > Thanks for your support. > > Markus > Hey Markus Yeah sure it's possible but you're gonna have to mess around with the Anaconda source and rebuild it with your changes included. See here for more details : http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/AnacondaDocumentationProj ect *warning* - the doc is still in development stage but if you check it after the weekend - things should be pretty close to finalized ... pantz -- Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes ... That way when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes! _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list

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Remove Selection
by Kohlmeier, Markus 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

Hello togehther. Is it possibel to remove the "Everything" and "Minimal" Check Box in the graphic installation ??? Thanks for your support. Markus

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FW: nfs mount fails during kickstart
by Joe Robertson 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

Richard Black wrote ----- > "Please see "Problem 2" below for your solution:"... > > Network issues: > > Problem 1: > If you have 2 NICs, then maybe you need to specify "ksdevice=eth0" as > a kernel boot parameter. > I have specified this in all cases. > Problem 2: > If connecting to a switch, then FastPort should be enabled on switch > ports that directly > connect to either a server or client (i.e. network card) and > should be disabled when > connected to other network devices such as switches or routers. I don't believe I can do this - the switch I'm using is an unmanaged switch. In any event, I've completely removed the switch from the equation by using a crossover cable to connect the machine I'm trying to install to the pxe install server. The problem appears to only go away when I use the slower nic (i.e. 10/100). > > Sincerely, > Richard Black Thanks for your response. Joe Robertson

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nfs mount fails during kickstart
by pop.west.cox.net 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

Symptoms of my problem... I have been working on this issue for some time and have narrowed it down to a problem - apparently with the ethernet port being used. - I can run an interactive install using the pxeboot / NFS share just fine - I can install to all combinations of machines. - When I try to do a kickstart install (on a SuperMicro X5DPR-TG2+ motherboard (Intel 82546DB on-motherboard NIC), the NFS mount fails and it will not read the kickstart file. - When I try to do a kickstart install (on a Dell 1600sc w/GBit ethernet on the motherboard - Intel 82540EM), the NFS mount fails and it will not read the kickstart file. - When I put the kickstart file on a floppy, it read the kickstart file but still fails on the NFS mount. - I installed a 3Com 3C905C ethernet card in the Dell 1600sc and used it to install - NFS mount has no problems. - I can use a Dell 350 w/100MB ethernet, and the kickstart runs through to completion - NFS mount has no problems. I ran into a similar problem when I first set this system up for running a diskless workstation via PXEBOOT. In this case it was the dhcp lease that was failing - I edited the boot script and forced it to try multiple times to get a dhcp lease - the problem went away. This indicates a timing problem.. (I was using all Dell 1600sc's when I did this). I've seen writeups on this problem as far back as a year ago where they believe fast machines (or slow switches) cause this type of behavior. I'm surprised there aren't more complaints on the mailing list based on the amount of problems I've encountered. Of course this is in anaconda for the kickstart case - I'm not familiar enough with python and the whole building process yet to tackle solving what I suspect is simply a case of the software not waiting long enough for the NFS mount to succeed. I'm going to be setting up several of these machines and do not want to add a NIC just to install. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My environment is as follows: Netgear unmanaged Gigabit switch (I've tried others as well) DHCP/TFTP/PXE/NFS Server- (all running on one host) Dell 1600sc Fedora Core 1 (released version) Single 2.8 GHz Xeon, 1 Gb network (1 NIC is on the motherboard) 36 GB Ultra 320 SCSI hard drive I've installed Core 1 and Core 2 test 1 & 2 interactively (using PXEBOOT) with no problems. I've tried to use kickstart with Core 1 and Core 2 test 2. Hosts that fail NFS mount with trying to run kickstart Dell 1600sc (I've tried several of these with same results) Single 2.8 GHz Xeon, 1 Gb network (1 NIC is on the motherboard) Several different hard drive configurations tried Ultra 320 SCSI ATA-100 IDE SATA (using promise SATA controller) Hosts that successfully run kickstart Dell 350 750 MHz Pentium 3, 10/100 Mb network (2 NICs are on the motherboard) ATA-66 IDE Dell 1600sc 2.8 GHz Xeon, 10/100 Mb network - added card - 3Com 3C905C-TXM Ultra 320 SCSI Thanks, Joe

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where can I get hdgenlist binary
by Chan, Dominic 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

I just recently rebuild my RedHat build workstation and notices hdgenlist command is no longer available. Can anyone tell me which RPM does hdgenlist came from? dwc Both the individual sending this e-mail and The Lubrizol Corporation intend that this electronic message be used exclusively by the individual or entity to which it is intended to be addressed. This message may contain information that is privileged, confidential and thereby exempt and protected from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication, or the use of its contents, is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication and are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the original message from your e-mail system. http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/cliquez_ici_pour_traduction_en_francais.… http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/F�r_die_deutsche_�bersetzung_bitte_hier_… http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/Clicar_aqui_para_vers�o_em_Portugu�s.htm http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/D�_un_clic_aqu�_para_su_traducci�n_al_es… http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/Chinese.htm http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/Japanese.htm

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Allow manual dependency resolution during kickstart installation
by Chan, Dominic 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

During a ks.cfg installation, I am seeing the following message from my console 3 screen FIXME: ahdn dependency problems. resolved them without informing the user Can I turn this feature off or some keyword inside my ks.cfg so that it does not resolved the depencency problem and prompt me with what the problem is Both the individual sending this e-mail and The Lubrizol Corporation intend that this electronic message be used exclusively by the individual or entity to which it is intended to be addressed. This message may contain information that is privileged, confidential and thereby exempt and protected from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication, or the use of its contents, is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication and are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the original message from your e-mail system. http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/cliquez_ici_pour_traduction_en_francais.… http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/F�r_die_deutsche_�bersetzung_bitte_hier_… http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/Clicar_aqui_para_vers�o_em_Portugu�s.htm http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/D�_un_clic_aqu�_para_su_traducci�n_al_es… http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/Chinese.htm http://www.lubrizol.com/disclaimer/Japanese.htm

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