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FC2 installer hangs after loading module from driver disk
by Paul Howarth 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Hi there, I'm new to the list, so please be gentle... I have a machine with the OS installed onto SCSI disks attached to an Advansys SCSI controller. This controller is not supported in Fedora so it's a bit of a hassle to install it but once installed, everything's OK because the advansys module is (or was, until very recently) supplied in both FC1 and FC2 kernel RPMs in the "unsupported" directory. However, the latest Fedora errata kernel does not contain the advansys module, so, looking forward to FC3, I'm expecting to have to create a driver disk to support the card then. I've found it very difficult to find up to date information on creating driver disks, so I've had to cobble something together based on what little I could find. Here's what I have: Disk (VFAT floppy) contents: modinfo modules.cgz modules.dep pcitable rhdd modinfo: Version 0 advansys scsi "Advansys SCSI Cards" modules.dep: advansys: scsi_mod pcitable: (from /usr/share/hwdata/pcitable) 0x10cd 0x1200 "advansys" "Advanced System Products|ASC1200 [(abp940) Fast SCSI-II]" 0x10cd 0x1300 "advansys" "Advanced System Products|ABP940-U / ABP960-U" 0x10cd 0x2300 "advansys" "Advanced System Products|ABP940-UW" 0x10cd 0x2500 "advansys" "Advanced System Products|ABP940-U2W" rhdd: Advansys Driver Disk modules.cgz: 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/athlon/advansys.o 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/i586/advansys.o 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/i686/advansys.o 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlBOOT/i386/advansys.o 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/athlon/advansys.o 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/i686/advansys.o 2.6.5-1.358/i586/advansys.ko 2.6.5-1.358/i686/advansys.ko 2.6.5-1.358smp/i586/advansys.ko 2.6.5-1.358smp/i686/advansys.ko This driver disk is intended to support FC1 and FC2 so far, my intention being to support FC3 when it comes along. The actual modules were extracted from the corresponding RPMs for the kernels. For FC3 I expect to have to build them myself. I'm testing the driver disk by booting from the boot.iso CD for FC2, and from the disk1 CD for FC1, then entering "linux dd" at the prompt. For both FC1 and FC2 I'm prompted to supply the driver disk, the Advansys SCSI card is detected, the module is extracted from the moduleball and loaded, apparently successfully, into the kernel (I can see the detection of the attached SCSI disks in the console messages screen). On FC1, the installer then goes on to ask me if I want to use any further driver disks, at which point I say "no" and it loads the tulip driver for my network card from the distribution media and continues with the installation. However, on FC2, the installer seems to hang with a nearly blank screen at this point. My question is: is this likely to be a problem with my driver disk, or with the installer? If it's the installer, what's it doing and how could I work around this problem? Could it be that booting from the disk1 CD for FC2 (which I don't have at the moment since I downloaded the DVD image instead, but this particular machine only has a CD reader) would improve matters? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers, Paul.

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cdrecord using ATAPI CD-R problem
by Chan Hang Lam 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

Dear all, I am using a ATAPI CD-R . I add append="hdb=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf When issue cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 (or cdrecodr -scanbus dev=ATAPI:/dev/hdb, It return scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,1,0" devname ' ATAP' .... scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. cdrecord: cannot get CD capabilities data 0,1,0 1) 'LITE-ON' 'COMBO SOHC-5232K' 'NK06' Removable CD-ROM ... I cannot use the CD-R properly. Can any help ? --------------------------------- 聊天室、收音機、Games 等多項功能全新 Yahoo! Messenger http://messenger.yahoo.com.hk

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Anaconda Log Patch?
by Brian Long 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

Has anyone patched anaconda for RHEL 3 to save /tmp/anaconda.log and other temporary log files to /mnt/sysimage/root? I'd like to log the complete output from tty3 and tty4 to files that are available once the host is online. I've been digging through the Python code and I'd rather use an existing patch than come up with something on my own. Thanks! /Brian/ -- Brian Long | | | IT Data Center Systems | .|||. .|||. Cisco Linux Developer | ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:.. Phone: (919) 392-7363 | C i s c o S y s t e m s

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Anaconda doc twiki is back online
by Paul Pianta 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

The twiki is back online again at the following address ... http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/AnacondaDocumentationProject thanks Alex! 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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What creates the user settings in /root ?
by Glen Gray 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

Hey guys, My custom installation scripts are progressing nicely thanks to the feedback from here. I'm at the last stage now. I want to get my kiosk booting with some sane settings but without having to go into a full gnome session. So I was wondering, at first login, where do the various .bashxxx and .gnomexxxx dirs come from with the default fedora core settings. I'm hoping there is something I can call post install to get them all setup nicely for first boot. Or do something in first boot if that's the only way. Thanks, -- Glen Gray <glen(a)lincor.com> 17 Dame Court Senior Software Engineer Dublin 2, Ireland Lincor Solutions Ltd. Ph: +353 (0) 1 6746413

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send digest
by Sergei Mikhailov 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

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Explaination of macros add for the install
by Glen Gray 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

Hey Guys, I was looking through the packages.py code at the installation code and noticed this piece of code rpm.addMacro("__dbi_htconfig", "hash nofsync %{__dbi_other} %{__dbi_perms}") I was wondering if someone could explain what that does for the installation process ? TIA, -- Glen Gray <glen(a)lincor.com> 17 Dame Court Senior Software Engineer Dublin 2, Ireland Lincor Solutions Ltd. Ph: +353 (0) 1 6746413

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Re: AnacondaDocumentationProject?
by Manilal K M 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

You can access the site from the following link http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/AnacondaDocumentationProject regards Manilal > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to access the AnacondaDocumentationProject at > http://rau.homedns.org, but it seems to be offline. Any way I can retrieve > the information that used to be stored there? Google Cache is missing a > lot of pages. > > Thanks a lot! > > -- > Eduardo B. Fonseca > Account Manager > A&D Solutions > BRAZIL > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Newbie to Anaconda Customisation requires help
by Amit Karia 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

Hi I've got my custom distro setup and it works with the comps.xml file being correct. However i've got two groups in the comps file A and B (including their own packages etc). I would like to be able to set Anaconda up so that its not possible for the user to install both the A and B groups, only one or the other. Thank you for your help Sam ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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AnacondaDocumentationProject?
by Eduardo B. Fonseca 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Hi everyone, I'm trying to access the AnacondaDocumentationProject at http://rau.homedns.org, but it seems to be offline. Any way I can retrieve the information that used to be stored there? Google Cache is missing a lot of pages. Thanks a lot! -- Eduardo B. Fonseca Account Manager A&D Solutions BRAZIL

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AnacondaDocumentationProject?
by Eduardo B. Fonseca 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Hi everyone, I'm trying to access the AnacondaDocumentationProject at http://rau.homedns.org, but it seems to be offline. Any way I can retrive the information that used to be stored there? Google Cache is missing a lot of pages. Thanks a lot! -- Eduardo B. Fonseca Account Manager A&D Solutions BRAZIL

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RE: Problem with a custom Redhat DVD and Anaconda
by Pierzycki, Christopher (EM, ITS) 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Hi Paul, Unfortunately I do not see any error messages other than "I could not find a Red Hat Linux Advanced Server CDROM in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the Redhat CD and press "OK" to retry." Is there a way to turn on some verbose? I did not personally create the original Redhat DVD so I do not know how it was done. I assumed it was done correctly because it appears to work fine. I will try to generate my own DVD and then modify it. What I can't understand is why I am able to mount the DVD drive everything and Anaconda cannot do it automatically. I looked at the Anaconda source code and can't find the script/program that actually does. Can you point me in the right direction? Chris -----Original Message----- From: Paul Nasrat [mailto:pnasrat@redhat.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:32 PM To: Pierzycki, Christopher (EM, ITS) Cc: anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com Subject: Re: Problem with a custom Redhat DVD and Anaconda On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:43:17PM -0400, Pierzycki, Christopher (EM, ITS) wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with what I think is Anaconda. I created a DOS > bootable Redhat DVD. It boots to DOS, loads CDROM driver, and executes > autoboot.bat script located on the DVD file system to start Redhat Linux > installation. Now, everything appears to work fine until Anaconda is > trying to mount the DVD file system. After choosing "local CDROM" as > the "Installation Method" I get an error: Sounds a bit round-a-bout. It'd be helpful if you gave exact error messages. There are DVD generation scripts for RHEL/Fedora here: ftp://people.redhat.com/ckloiber Paul

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Problem with a custom Redhat DVD and Anaconda
by Pierzycki, Christopher (EM, ITS) 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Hi, I have a problem with what I think is Anaconda. I created a DOS bootable Redhat DVD. It boots to DOS, loads CDROM driver, and executes autoboot.bat script located on the DVD file system to start Redhat Linux installation. Now, everything appears to work fine until Anaconda is trying to mount the DVD file system. After choosing "local CDROM" as the "Installation Method" I get an error: I could not find a Red Hat Linux Advanced Server CDROM in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the Redhat CD and press "OK" to retry. Another thing I noticed is that on the F3 screen I get a message "trying to mount device hda" and nothing more. Every time I press "OK" at the error message it keeps on coming back with a fresh "trying to mount device hda" message. Now, before making this DVD I tried this process without combining both the boot disk and the Redhat DVD together and I did not any problems. So yesterday I went back to my custom DVD and attempted to start the installation via HTTP to get the shell prompt on F2. From the shell prompt I was able to successfully mount the DVD file system in /mnt/source directory. The only thin custom on this disk is the boot sector; otherwise the DVD file system is untouched. Can anyone give me an idea what is going on? Thanks in advance, Chris

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Re: cdrecord using ATAPI CD-R problem
by Manilal K M 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Hello Chan Hang Lam See the attachment for what I did in my machine to get the CD-RW working. regards Manilal > Dear all, > > I am using a ATAPI CD-R . > I add append="hdb=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf > > When issue cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 > (or cdrecodr -scanbus dev=ATAPI:/dev/hdb, > It return > scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,1,0" > devname ' ATAP' > .... > > scsibus0: > 0,0,0 0) * > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. > cdrecord: cannot get CD capabilities data > 0,1,0 1) 'LITE-ON' 'COMBO SOHC-5232K' 'NK06' Removable CD-ROM > ... > > > I cannot use the CD-R properly. > Can any help ? > > -- ______________________________________________ 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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raid5 arrays must NOT be create --dangerous-no-resync
by Philip Molter 20 Aug '04

20 Aug '04

The anaconda code in fsset.py creates all raid5 arrays with the '--dangerous-no-resync' flag. That flag is labeled like that for a reason. If you initialize a RAID5 array, you MUST initialize parity on the array. If you don't then when a drive fails out, you will encounter corruption as the data rebuilt from parity won't match that of the disk that failed out. The only exception to this is if the drive has been zeroed out beforehand, but anaconda's not doing that either (and shouldn't, I don't think). It's imperative that this flag be removed from raid5 array creation. Philip

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Installation tree hierarchy not found
by Michael Anckaert 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Hello all, I get the following error message on my customized fedora distro when I try to run the system-config-packages program. Installation tree hierarchy not found The path /mnt/cdrom does not look like a valid installation source. It could be that it looks different in English, I translated from dutch. I stripped a bunch of packages but I didn't alter much on the system-config-* packages. Can anyone tell me what causes this error and how I can fix it? Thx -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Kind regards, Michael Anckaert michael.anckaert(a)pi.be

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Why X-CD-Roaster can burns a bootable CD-RW used in CD-ROM, but mkisofs, gnometoaster CANNOT ?
by Chan Hang Lam 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Dear all, In RH90, I try to make a customized bootable CD, when I use mkisofs and Gnometoaster 1.0 Beta6, the CD is bootable in CD recorder, but not CD-ROM (you may ignore the error arise from record speed and CD-RW disc and CD-R disc) Dear all, In RH90, I try to make a customized bootable CD. When I use cdrecord or gnometoaster 1.0 Beta 6, the CD is bootable in CD recorder only, but not CD-ROM (you may ignore the cases arise from record speed OR different discs as CD-RW or CD-R) But X-CD-Roast Version 0.98 alpha 13 (just default value to burn CD from iso file) can produce a CD-RW disc that boots from CD-ROM. I guest the reason is :- mkisofs or gnometoaster burns TOC in PMA, but X-CD-Roast burns TOC in lead-in area of the CD Did anyone know the option in cdrecord so that I can force my CD Recorder to burn the TOC to PMA just as X-CD-Roaster did ? For X-CD-Roaster http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/getting-started-guide… FYI. cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 /RH90/mydisc.iso blank=fast mkisofs -r -J -T -v -V "My Disc" \ -c isolinux/boot.cat -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boot \ -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \ -o /RH90/mydisc.iso /RH90/i386 --------------------------------- 聊天室、收音機、Games 等多項功能全新 Yahoo! Messenger http://messenger.yahoo.com.hk

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Re: scrubbing trees
by Manilal K M 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

> Can anyone tell me what this does? > The buildinstall script outputs this message > I get a bunch of error messages (see the bottom of this mail) but I > can't figure what caused them. > > Error messages: (I get a whole bunch of them) > /tmp/treedir.9536/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: line 68: > strip: command not found > /tmp/treedir.9536/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: line 1: > objdump: command not found > /tmp/treedir.9536/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: line 68: > strip: command not found > /tmp/treedir.9536/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: line 1: > objdump: command not found Dear Michael, Check whether you have installed binutils rpm. You better have a machine installed with all the packages (ie with "Everything" option). regards Manilal -- ______________________________________________ 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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Re: CD-R cannot boot a bootable CD made by CD-RW
by Manilal K M 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

> Dear all, > > > I use cdrecord dev=0,0,0 blank=fast foo.iso speed=4 to burn a bootable using a CD-RW Can you share the command (mkisofs) that you used to create the ISO image? May be the problem is there. regards Manilal -- ______________________________________________ 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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scrubbing trees
by Michael Anckaert 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Can anyone tell me what this does? The buildinstall script outputs this message I get a bunch of error messages (see the bottom of this mail) but I can't figure what caused them. Error messages: (I get a whole bunch of them) /tmp/treedir.9536/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: line 68: strip: command not found /tmp/treedir.9536/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: line 1: objdump: command not found /tmp/treedir.9536/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: line 68: strip: command not found /tmp/treedir.9536/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/scrubtree: line 1: objdump: command not found -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Kind regards, Michael Anckaert michael.anckaert(a)pi.be

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Re: changing installer images
by Manilal K M 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

> Hello, > I'm trying to change the anaconda images, such as anacona_header.png and > such. I'm doing this by installing the anaconda-images-src rpm, > modifying it and rebuilding it. Yet rpmbuild seems to changes the images > back to the standard fedora images. I can't run a patch on the files After recompiling the anaconda-images rpm, have you done the 'buildinstall' step.? regards manilal -- ______________________________________________ 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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Re: CD-R cannot boot a bootable CD made by CD-RW
by Manilal K M 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

> It is > > > > mkisofs -r -J -T -v -V "Aero Drive" \ > > -c isolinux/boot.cat -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boot \ > > -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \ > > -o /RH90/mydisc.iso /RH90/i386 Dear Chan, I couldn't get the actual problem with your command. However you try with the following command " mkisofs -b images/bootdisk.img -c boot.cat -v -r -T -J -V Kairali-1.0_D1 -o /home/fedora/KL_D1.iso /home/fedora/i386-disc1 " It works fine for me on both CD-Rs and CD-RWs regards Manilal -- ______________________________________________ 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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Re: up2dateiso problems with FC2
by Manilal K M 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

> The program works fine with RH9, FC1 and CentOS 3.1, but when new isos are > created with FC2 the installer starts asking you to swap cds like crazy. I > had thought that it was a problem with genhdlist that is included with the > FC2 anaconda-runtime, but I just modified up2dateiso to use the FC1 > genhdlist and I get the same results. The problem I think is with the genhdlist itself. You just try with pkgorder before running genhdlist. I got the same problem some times ago. But it was cleared when I rerun pkgorder and then genhdlist. regards Manilal -- ______________________________________________ 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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Re: changing installer images
by Manilal K M 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

> I have the same problem but I dont undestand de > solution ! What you said is that i have to create a > tar from the /usr/src/redhat/BUID ? extract the files > in other location, modify the png's files and the buid > the tar again, descompress in the /usr/src/redhat and > then buid the rpm ?? > > Is that correct ? if not, what that I have to do ? > Here is the simple way. 1. Obtain your src.rpm file, run the command 2. rpm -ivh anaconda-images.src.rpm the source tarball will be at /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ 3. untar the sources, make necessary changes 4. compress using the appropriate compressing technique (bzip/gzip) 5. cd /usr/src/redhat/ 5. rpmbuild -ba SPECS/anaconda-images.spec Now your rpm is ready. For more info refer: http://www.linuxworks.com.au/redhat-installer-howto.html http://www.contribs.com/contribs/rsi/howto/SME%20Anaconda%20HowTo.htm http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/howto_modify_e-smith_interface_rpm.php3 http://contribs.org/contribs/dmay/mitel/howto/sme-iso-howto.html http://www.linuxworks.com.au/PB-rhcd.html http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/AnacondaDocumentationProject http://www.rpm.org/ http://www.coolgoose.com/sites/lal_tvm/anaconda.html regards Manilal -- ______________________________________________ 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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Re: changing installer images
by Manilal K M 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

> Hello Manilal, > Yes, I ran the buildinstall step again. > But maybe a bit more explanation. I modify the .png files in > /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/anaconda-images-10 and rebuild the rpm with > rpmbuild -ba anaconda-images.spec > After the build, all the images are back in their original state, the > fedora logo instead of the logo I changed it to. Hello Michael, Sorry for the delay. I was out-of-station for two days(may be due to the weekend holidays). You should not change the files in the BUILD directory. These are generated automatically when you run rpmbuild. You have to change the tarball in your SOURCES directory. Don't forget to compress the source files after changing the images. Now I think everything will be OK. regards Manilal -- ______________________________________________ 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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