[RULE] partial report on Fedora FC2 install attempt

[M. Fioretti]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 22:58:58 PM +0200, Franz Zahaurek  fzk at fzk.at 
wrote:

> I switched version to 0.4.01.
> 
> Installing Fedora FC2 can now be performed with busybox rpm.
> rpm-4.3.1 is installed with this mini-rpm and then performs the main
> installation.  Thou this is not without errors, it seems to work.
> This frees up much space of disk2 because rpm.gz is no longer
> needed.
> 
> See details and images at http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/

I have downloaded the tarball, and built an ISO image from there. I
have to do it because the floppy drive in my laptop seems broken.

First feedback:

0) tarball expansion still possible only by root
1) While running the makedisk.sh and makedisk2.sh scripts I get
   (only errors and warning reported)

Creating boot disk slinky-0.4.01-disk1.img.
rm: cannot remove `rootfs*': No such file or directory
...

mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
rootfs is mounted; mke2fs forced anyway.  Hope /etc/mtab is incorrect.

...

touch: creating `loop/dev/fd': No such file or directory
touch: creating `loop/dev/stderr': No such file or directory
touch: creating `loop/dev/stdout': No such file or directory
touch: creating `loop/dev/stdin': No such file or directory
that's loop now:
total 17
drwxr-xr-x  2  503 users 1024 Jan  1  2004 bin
drwxr-xr-x  2  503 users 1024 Jan  1  2004 boot
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  4096 Jan  1  2004 dev
drwxr-xr-x  4  503 users 1024 Jan  1  2004 etc
drwxr-xr-x  3  503 users 1024 Jan  1  2004 lib
drwxr-xr-x  2  503 users 1024 Jan  1  2004 loop
drwxr-xr-x  4  503 users 1024 Jan  1  2004 mnt
drwxr-xr-x  2  503 users 1024 Jan  1  2004 newroot
drwxr-xr-x  2  503 users 1024 Jan  1  2004 proc
drwxr-xr-x  2  503 users 1024 Jan  1  2004 sbin
drwxr-xr-x  2  503 users 1024 Jan  1  2004 scripts
drwxr-xr-x  2  503 users 1024 Jan  1  2004 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  7  503 users 1024 Jan  1  2004 usr
drwxr-xr-x  3  503 users 1024 Jan  1  2004 var
...

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/home/slinky-0.4.01/slinky-0.4.01-disk1.img
                          1430      1409        22  99% /home/slinky-0.4.01/loop
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 664249 Sep 19 18:10 rootfs.gz

if there is no space left in the slinky-img the installation will not work
try to repeat this script, size of rootfs.gz might change slightly - hit RETURN
 
I also had to edit the makeiso.sh script, because it wouldn't find the
img files otherwise. These are the lines I changed:

#cp -a slinky-images/${version}/${image} ${SLINKYDIR}/images/
#cp -a slinky-images/${version}/disk2.img ${SLINKYDIR}/images/
replaced by:
cp -a slinky-images/${version}/${version}-disk1.img ${SLINKYDIR}/images/
cp -a slinky-images/${version}/${version}-disk2.img ${SLINKYDIR}/images/

and
#mkisofs $vol_id $mkisofsopts -b $BOOTIMG -c $BOOTCAT\
replaced by:
mkisofs $vol_id $mkisofsopts -b images/slinky-0.4.01-disk1.img -c
$BOOTCAT

During install from cdrom I get these two errors:

ls: bb_xasprintf: Input/output error (before enter number for language
		  to select or RETURN for default us keymap

and no language choice listed. Later, when selecting install media
(nfs, http, cdrom, etc...) it says:

grep: /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info: No such file or directory

after that the install aborts because it can't find the hard drive,
but this might be something I messed up in my BIOS. Now I will check
this, but in the meantime wanted to get some comments on all the
above.

Ciao, and thanks again to Franz for his work
Marco

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