Anaconda-devel August 2004

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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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