-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 No hurry I have plenty of other things to do. My battle at the moment is to get a minimum install for openSUSE (and SLES) to use as my image.
So far Novell's idea of a minimum install has about 300 more packages than my idea of one (kickstart with a %packages --nobase). Andrea Righi wrote: > Mike Brady wrote: >> parted version is 1.7.1 >> >> Andrea Righi wrote: >>> Mike Brady wrote: >>>> Andrea, >>>> >>>> Sorry no good. The patch applies ok, but .... >>>> >>>> Firstly the maximum size of a Minix file system is 64M so a fulel >>>> UYOK doesn't fit. I got around this with --my-modules which does >>>> fit. >>>> >>>> Then I ran into the filename size limit which is 30 characters. >>>>>> tar -C /tmp/.systemimager.0 -cf - . | tar -C /tmp/.systemimager.1 >>>>>> -xf - >>>> tar: ./etc/dhclient-script.systemimager-prefix: Cannot open: File >>>> name too long >>>> >>>> The 'golden client' is a Vmware Server guest which needs the mpt >>>> drivers (mptspi, mptscsih, mptbase, scsi_transport_spi). >>>> >>> it seems that to resolve this issue the only clean way is to add the >>> cpio initrd support... unfrotunately to do that we need to rewrite a lot >>> of code in systemimager, so it'll need some time. I'll start to test it >>> with the trunk. >>>> I have a UYOK made from a Centos 4 golden client that I know works, >>>> so I should be able to use that. So si_prepareclient --no-uyok gets >>>> me an image. >>> OK, for now this seems to be a good workaround. >>>> The next issue that I have encountered is with the partitioning >>>> information. >>>> >>>> # parted -s -- /dev/sda unit MB print >>> It seems that the syntax of parted changed again... >:-( which version >>> of parted are you using in your golden client? >>> Regards, >>> -Andrea > > OK, I've started to work in the trunk to resolve both problmes (parted > syntax and I'm trying to add the cpio support). I hope to have a fix soon... > > Regards, > -Andrea - -- Mike Brady GPG Key ID: 0x9C777DA4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF9eBd6xLAi5x3faQRAtV0AJ4hJNStFkm7OHGicPRACOafD9QuIACfd3UY r/g0ZANrEZNgT9AZb/M8Nuo= =up+G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
