stateless problems

[Peter Schobel]

Hi,

i put the rpms into the RPMS dir and ran

/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --hdlist /mnt/FC3/Fedora/base/hdlist
--productpath Fedora /mnt/FC3/

this seems to complete successfully

and i can see that the packages have been added to the list

strings /mnt/FC3/Fedora/base/hdlist |grep stateless

stateless-server
stateless-0.20-1.src.rpm
stateless-server
stateless-common
stateless-server-0.20-1.noarch.rpm
stateless-common
stateless-0.20-1.src.rpm
config(stateless-common)
stateless-common
config(stateless-common)
stateless-common-0.20-1.noarch.rpm
stateless-client
stateless-0.20-1.src.rpm
stateless-client
stateless-common
stateless-client-0.20-1.noarch.rpm

strings /mnt/FC3/Fedora/base/hdlist |grep readonly

readonly.so
readonly-root
Enables the use of a readonly root filesystem
of a readonly root filesystem.
The rc.readonly initscript configures the system so that temporary
live CDs. Finally, the readonly-prepare script tweaks an OS image
to make it suitable for booting with readonly-root.
readonly-root-0.10-1.src.rpm
`config(readonly-root)
readonly-root
config(readonly-root)
readonly-root-0.10-1.i386.rpm

however, when i attempt to do the kickstart install, the install now
terminates abnormally right after preparing rpm transaction

thx in advance, 

Peter Schobel
~

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 06:02, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 13:16 -0500, Peter Schobel wrote:
> > i'm having a few problems with setting up stateless linux for the
> > rsync-based cached instantiation model
> > 
> > first of all, i couldn't get the post install script in the kickstart
> > file to work. and i'm not sure why because i could not see any output
> > from that script but i know that when the system would reboot, the
> > stateless-client package would not be installed
> 
> 	What I was doing in the end was:
> 
>   - Rather than using the yum-from-kickstart hack I'd recommend copying
>     that stateless-* and readonly-root RPMs into a rawhide install tree
>     and then doing:
> 
>   $> genhdlist --hdlist /path/to/install/tree/Fedora/base/hdlist --productpath Fedora /path/to/tree
> 
>   - And then using the kickstart file attached.
> 
> 	It'd be great if you could confirm that works and send patches for the
> HOWTO.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark.