Anaconda-devel August 2004

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up2dateiso problems with FC2
by Brian C. Lane 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

Hello, I am the author of up2dateiso (http://www.brianlane.com/up2dateiso.php) which is a python program to update iso images with the latest rpm updates. 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. I'm not yet familiar enough with the build process to figure out what's going on, but I suspect that whatever genhdlist uses to build its file list has problems. Or something :) Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Brian -- ---[Office 76.3F]--[Fridge 39.8F]---[Fozzy 95.6F]--[Coaster 69.3F]--- Linux Software Developer http://www.brianlane.com

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CD-R cannot boot a bootable CD made by CD-RW
by Chan Hang Lam 14 Aug '04

14 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 The CD is bootable in the CD-RW. But it is not bootable in other CD-R Can anyone 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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changing installer images
by Michael Anckaert 13 Aug '04

13 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 because rpmbuild complains that the patch contains "garbage". Any help? Thx Met vriendelijke groeten, Kind regards, Michael Anckaert michael.anckaert(a)pi.be

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installation type
by Michael Anckaert 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Hello all, I'm trying to modify anaconda. I want to change the types of installation (e.g. Desktop, server, development). I looked through the code but couldn't find what I wanted. Any tips? Thanks in advance. Met vriendelijke groeten, Kind regards, Michael Anckaert michael.anckaert(a)pi.be

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Re: Creating Customized Single CD distro
by Manilal K M 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

> I like to create single cd distro based on FC2, that will have gnome2.6 > localized in pa_IN and other stuff. The cd is to in courage the use of GNU > and OSS. Hope this link will also help you. http://www.coolgoose.com/sites/lal_tvm/anaconda.html Best of Luck for your venture 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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updates.img not downloaded
by Philip Molter 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

I have a PXE-based HTTP kickstart routine with an updates.img file. On one set of systems, the updates.img file never gets downloaded and the fixes for raid5 corruption it contains never get applied. I've verified that the web server never sees the request for the updates.img file, even though it serves the request for the kickstart file and the subsequent requests for the product.img and netstg2.img files. If I purposefully break the config and manually enter the kickstart URL, then it fetches the updates.img as one would expect. Checking our Cisco logs, the interface does go down for six seconds after fetching the kickstart file, which I can only assume is anaconda resetting the interface, and then right after that, it issues requests for product.img. Has anyone ever seen this? The server being installed onto is a dual-Intel gigabit machine that functions flawlessly otherwise. The machine being installed off of is a dual-Broadcom Opteron box. An almost identical (servers serving the files are e1000-based Intels) configuration elsewhere functions flawlessly. Any information would be appreciated, Philip

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buildinstall error
by Michael Anckaert 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Hello all, I'm creating a custom fedora distribution. Everything went fine until some time ago. I get an error running the buildinstall script. These are the error messages I get from the buildinstall script. ln: creating symbolic link `/tmp/treedir.2829/instimage/etc/joe/picorc' to `jpicorc': Onbekend bestand of map ln: creating symbolic link `/tmp/treedir.2829/instimage/etc/joe/emacsrc' to `jmacsrc': Onbekend bestand of map mv: cannot stat `/tmp/treedir.2829/image-template/usr/sbin/busybox.anaconda': Onbekend bestand of map cp: cannot stat `/tmp/treedir.2829/instimage/boot/memtest*': Onbekend bestand of map mv: cannot stat `/tmp/treedir.2829/instimage/usr/sbin/busybox.anaconda': Onbekend bestand of map Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 348, in ? import signal, traceback, string, isys, iutil, time File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 17, in ? import _isys ImportError: libbogl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory find: usr/lib/booty: Onbekend bestand of map >From the error message you can see that the script is complaining about libbogl.so.0 and the booty package. None of these packages were removed or altered as far as I know, I did however modify the comps.xml file for my distro. Met vriendelijke groeten, Kind regards, Michael Anckaert michael.anckaert(a)pi.be

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Creating Customized Single CD distro
by Gursharn Singh 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

I like to create single cd distro based on FC2, that will have gnome2.6 localized in pa_IN and other stuff. The cd is to in courage the use of GNU and OSS. Please help me on how to do this. Gursharn Singh

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internationalisation
by Michael Anckaert 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Hello all, I'm creating a custom fedora distro and plan on removing all languages except one (maybe two or three). My questions. A. How do I remove the other languages from the installer? B. If i only keep one language, how can I skip the language selection dialog automatically? C. I just removed the unnecessary translations for the comps.xml file, is this the right way to do it? Met vriendelijke groeten, Kind regards, Michael Anckaert michael.anckaert(a)pi.be

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loader broadcom driver support
by Sameer Kamat 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Hi, I am trying to put the broadcom 57xx and the 44xx support on the CD image. The CD is made from the Fedora Core 1 CD 1. I downloaded the drivers and compiled them for the fedora 2.4.22-1.2115.npt1 kernel, which happens to be the kernel on the CD. I put the bcm5700.o file in the modules.cgz in initrd.img and the stage2.img. Subsequently I also modified the module-info and the pcitable files in both places with the bcm entries. However the modules fails to load. Is there any know issues with the fedora kernels and broadcom drivers? Also I see that there is a modules.pcimap file in the initrd.img modules directory. I had not seen or used this file for Redhat 9.0. Can anyone give me any pointers in this regard? Thanks, Sameer.

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external USB cdrom
by Sameer Kamat 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Hi, Does the loader support booting from an external USB cdrom ? When I tried getting to rescue mode, the kernel came up, then the loader complained that it could not load the rescue image from the cdrom. Ctrl-Alt-F3 says that mountStage2 fails. Are there any known issues with USB cdrom drives ? Thanks, Sameer.

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using kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2 in installation image?
by William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Hi all, has anyone had success installing from a tree that uses the latest FC2 errata kernel? I'm using a custom version which includes Speakup, http://linux-speakup.org/, and CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS. The legacy PTYS configuration is on so that telnet installations will work again, I wish I knew what the real fix was for that one. The problem that I'm seeing is that the installer is unable to load any modules. On console 2, I see a message for each module saying that insmod fails. Any ideas? -- Bill in Denver

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Prompt command line for "linux checkmedia" or screen for "Test" CD
by Chan Hang Lam 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Dear all, I am making a customized CD. However, I want to check the CD is okay or not after burn from iso file. I did use check the command "Implantisomd5" and "checkisomd5" for my iso file How can I verified my CD during the installation after booting from the CD, and issue this command: linux mediacheck to check ? My CD does not prompt a command line for me NOR stop in a screen to let me "test" it Any suggetion ? --------------------------------- 聲色圖案、收音機、Games等多項功能 - 全新 Yahoo! Messenger messenger.yahoo.com.hk

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Problem in using Implantisomd5 and Checkisomd5
by Chan Hang Lam 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Dear all, I am making a RH90 CD. Using mkisofs to create a iso file with 650M. Then I use implantisomd5 to add the md5sum But when i issue the command checkisomd5, after 100% complete, it return "The media check is complete, the result is : FAIL." What is wrong ? it is matter with the size ? Best Regards --------------------------------- 聲色圖案、收音機、Games等多項功能全新 Yahoo! Messenger messenger.yahoo.com.hk

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Update Kernel for PXE Installations
by Philip Molter 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

This is frustrating because it seems easy but there's no documentation on how to do it. I want to upgrade the kernel for PXE-based installations from the stock 2.6.5-1.358 kernel that comes with Fedora Core 2 to the latest errata for FC2. Upgrading the vmlinuz file is a simple copy, but how do you rebuild the initrd.img and netstg2.img files so they're identical to what's already there, except tagged for the newer kernel? There are bugs in the 2.6.5 kernel used for PXE installations that we're triggering, and I want to keep a PXE installation as close as possible to the standard installation. Thanks in advance for any help, Philip

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Re: non-unique LABELs during installation
by Hans-Olof Hansson 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

>> >> Wouldn't it be nice if the system, when Anaconda detects non-unique LABELs, listed all partitions and their LABELs >> on the disks installed in the system? Then allow the user to remove or rename LABELs as he see fit? > >Indeed. Did you put this RFE in bugzilla? > >Forrest > Done! See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=129086 Hans-Olof Hansson ____________________________________________________________ Vad står det om dig på nätet? Kolla nu! - http://www.lycos.se/

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non-unique LABELs during installation
by Hans-Olof Hansson 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

During my installation of Fedora Core 2 I got a error message from Anaconda stating that the disk LABELS on the disks in my system was not uniqe. I was then told to quit the installation and go fix the problem myself. Eg. reboot the system and rename or remove offending LABELs. This may happen when you have multiple disks which have had their Linux previously installed on each of them. Which may occur if you try to salvage data on an old installation into the new one, or something similar. Wouldn't it be nice if the system, when Anaconda detects non-unique LABELs, listed all partitions and their LABELs on the disks installed in the system? Then allow the user to remove or rename LABELs as he see fit? Regards Hans-Olof Hansson ____________________________________________________________ Vad står det om dig på nätet? Kolla nu! - http://www.lycos.se/

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Re: [PATCH] RTL/LTR buttons direction
by Basem Narmok 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Jeremy Katz wrote: >On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 09:41 +0300, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote: > > >>On Sunday 01 August 2004 8:03 pm, Jeremy Katz wrote: >> >> >>>On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 08:13 +0300, Basem Narmok wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Sorry I was busy last days, this patch will fix the problem ... it is a >>>>small hack that I use to fix the RTL/LTR buttons direction in anaconda, >>>>I have another one for firstboot (I have more I will post them soon): >>>> >>>> >>>Thanks for the patch, but unfortunately, the right answer isn't to put >>>something like this in every app. Instead, the Bluecurve theme needs to >>>be modified to contain all of the appropriate icons (see >>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128721) >>> >>> >>> >>So, the right approach is to fix bluecurve ?? >> >> > >Yep. I'm not exactly sure what's required there, but looking in other >themes and seeing what's different is probably a good way to start > >Jeremy > I tested some code on another Distro. and ya no RTL bugs!! the OptionMenu works fine RTL, I think something must be fixed in Bluecurve, strange ... Basem

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[PATCH] RTL/LTR buttons direction
by Basem Narmok 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

Hi all, Sorry I was busy last days, this patch will fix the problem ... it is a small hack that I use to fix the RTL/LTR buttons direction in anaconda, I have another one for firstboot (I have more I will post them soon): diff -Naur anaconda-10.0.1/gui.py anaconda-10.0.1-new/gui.py --- anaconda-10.0.1/gui.py 2004-06-21 21:51:17.000000000 +0300 +++ anaconda-10.0.1-new/gui.py 2004-08-01 08:04:33.705498976 +0300 @@ -741,6 +741,21 @@ self.updateStockButtons() self.loadReleaseNotes() self.refreshHelp(recreate = 1) + self.chkRtLButtons() + + def chkRtLButtons(self): + ltrrtl = gettext.dgettext("gtk20", "default:LTR") + if ltrrtl == "default:RTL": + self.buttonBox.remove (self.nextButtonStock) + self.buttonBox.remove (self.prevButtonStock) + self.buttonBox.add (self.nextButtonStock) + self.buttonBox.add (self.prevButtonStock) + else: + self.buttonBox.remove (self.prevButtonStock) + self.buttonBox.remove (self.nextButtonStock) + self.buttonBox.add (self.prevButtonStock) + self.buttonBox.add (self.nextButtonStock) + def setLtR(self): ltrrtl = gettext.dgettext("gtk20", "default:LTR") @@ -1350,6 +1365,7 @@ self.buttonBox.add (self.prevButtonStock) self.buttonBox.add (self.nextButtonStock) + self.chkRtLButtons() self.hbox = gtk.HBox () self.hbox.set_border_width(5)

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[BUG] RTL OptionMenu in anaconda
by Basem Narmok 01 Aug '04

01 Aug '04

Hi all, This is another bug that appears with RTL languages, it is related to gtk2 OptionMenu drawing for RTL, you can see this bug in many places like the filesystem type OptionMenu ... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128934 Regards Basem Narmok

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