Anaconda-devel May 2006

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ignoring GPT partitions
by Adam Miller 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi, I'm working on a completely automated install of FC4x86_64 on a AMD Opteron 175 box with 16x Western Digital 400GB drives. The OS is being installed on a 20GB partition, and the rest of the 5TB are on a single GPT partition. The GPT partition will house data that I do not want destroyed when installing the OS. Anaconda will warn, however, that this partition is GPT. I wish to ignore this fact in the install, but I don't know how to add in the kickstart to ignore this drive. Any suggestions? Cheers, Adam Miller UWM

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How loader2 create ide/scsi device node file?
by Levin Du 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

I'm reading anaconda source files these days. I extract initrd.img from FC5, and notice that '/dev' in initrd.img is empty. I find that init will create some basic devices such as console, ttys, fb etc, but no device files of hard disks or floppy. And I look into loader2. Loader2 will load all the require modules. Yet I cannot find code creating those block device files. Would anyone kindly point it out for me? Best reguards, Levin

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Media weirdness
by Philip Prindeville 31 May '06

31 May '06

Are there any known issues with Kickstart on FC5? I have a DVD-RW that I burned that passes media checking both on the source and target machines (I use the checkisomd5 command on the raw device, and then "linux mediacheck" again on the target machine). Yet when I try to install from it, I sometimes get a message about "The package mgetty-... cannot be opened. This is due to a missing file or perhaps a corrupt package. yada yada" Oddly, if I reboot and try again, it may fail on the same package, or it may fail on another. Sometimes reburning the DVD fixes the issue. Some times it doesn't. Seems to be a non-deterministic. And if I click on "Retry" on the error dialog pop-up, I get an exception: timer.stop() in getRPMFilename() in image.py.... AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'stop' (noting also that getRPMFilename() has "None" as the 3rd parameter in the caller. Does any of this sound familiar? -Philip

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Re: Customize Anaconda Installer
by Alain TAUCH 31 May '06

31 May '06

On Wed, 31 May 2006 11:18:41 -0500 Mario Gamboa [Mario] wrote: Mario> edit you comps.xml for remove the option of workstation of anaconda Mario> installer Hi mario. you misread the thread, I'm not the one looking for how to do this and you only replied to me (not to the list) so indraveni won't be able to see your message. Moreover I think we're not talking about the same things: - the server/worstation installation type (.py files) - the server/workstation package groups and their content (comps.xml) -- Alain

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Re: Customize Anaconda Installer
by Alain TAUCH 31 May '06

31 May '06

On Wed, 31 May 2006 13:11:46 +0100 (BST) Indraveni wrote: |> we have done that but no use.. Still they are being displayed. If they are still displayed, you missed something when repackaging your distro with your new anaconda. You'll need to provide more details. |> At the same time in the Additional Languages Support Screen also |> I want to remove the existing once and add our languages into it. |> |> How can I do this??? I'm sure you'll be able to find this in the ML archives. And please, reply to the list ;-) -- Alain |> Alain TAUCH <anaconda(a)maisondubonheur.com> wrote: On Wed, 31 May 2006 11:53:16 +0100 (BST) |> Indraveni wrote: |> |> [...] |> |> we are working for a distro for which we are using anaconda Installer. |> |> I want to remove the Workstation and Server options from the Install |> |> Type Screen that appears duing installation since we are not having |> |> the Workstation and server version of Our OS. |> |> |> |> For this what should i do.. Can anyone tell me where the coding of |> |> anaconda installer should be modified. |> |> IIRC you only need to remove the server.py and workstation.py files |> in the installclasses/ folder. |>

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Customizing Anaconda Installer
by Indraveni 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi, we are working for a distro for which we are using anaconda Installer. I want to remove the Workstation and Server options from the Install Type Screen that appears duing installation since we are not having the Workstation and server version of Our OS. Also in the Additional Language Support Screen I dont want the existing ones but I want to add new languages which Our Os supports i.e Indian Languages.. For this what should i do.. Can anyone tell me where the coding of anaconda installer should be modified. Any help will be apprecaited. Thankyou Indraveni --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now

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Customize Anaconda Installer
by Indraveni 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi, we are working for a distro for which we are using anaconda Installer. I want to remove the Workstation and Server options from the Install Type Screen that appears duing installation since we are not having the Workstation and server version of Our OS. For this what should i do.. Can anyone tell me where the coding of anaconda installer should be modified. Any help will be apprecaited. Thankyou Indraveni --------------------------------- Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new Click here Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger Download now

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by maysam shakouri 30 May '06

30 May '06

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Whether /mnt/source should be visible chroot'd or not
by Philip Prindeville 30 May '06

30 May '06

I had filed the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192332 because, as a newbie, I thought the behavior of Anaconda was counter-intuitive and found myself doing something that must have been done by a good number of others, and wondered why it wasn't the default behavior (doing it wouldn't break anything expecting the backwards compatible behavior). But the bug was closed with the following comment: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/process_bug.cgi#c2 > Doing this breaks expectations of people -- /mnt/source isn't going to exist on > the real system. Also, it's not going to work with non-CD install methods. which I didn't understand, and seemed to be counter to most expectations. So I wanted to ask, am I really alone here in left field? Because at least one other posting (earlier today) on Kickstart-list seemed to imply that this is a fairly common expectation/misunderstanding. Anyone else have feelings on this issue either way? What am I missing? -Philip

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Adding a kernel driver to RHEL4 initrd.img & interactions with Anaconda loader
by Shawn Starr 29 May '06

29 May '06

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone can point me to some good documentation explaining how to add a kernel driver into the initrd.img. When I tried to add it, Anaconda would prompt me that It couldn't find the hardware (in this case an updated e1000 driver). The driver was listed in the dialog and I could Manually load it by selecting it. However, Anaconda refuses to proceed further to download the Stage 2 ramdisk. When adding the driver to the initrd.img I Merged the pcitable, pci.ids, modinfo from the original driver. That contains newer PCI IDs for the e1000. The problem is it seems to think I want another driver disk? Anyone know? Thanks, Shawn.

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