There are two separate issues. On the Windows side, that stuff hasn't been updated since the 0.4 days. I'd almost like to see us use something like a Nullsoft scriptable installer system to create an install script that will work from a Windows machine. It would be really cool if we had one iso that had all of the various images and allow the user to select the target and install it.
On the Linux side, the astinstall script is in /usr/sbin on all systems (though it was only designed to work on the bootable CD). If we included the "img" files on the CD, that script too could be simplified to use 'dd' and not perform all of the manual steps that the current script does. This would mirror our current recommended install method. Creating the ISO would be a bit of a pain, but having all of the images on one ISO would be so much nicer. Realistically, the bootable part only needs to handle generic i586. Darrick On 08/11/2010 04:32 PM, Guy Neale wrote: > pbx ~ # mount > rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) > /dev/root on /oldroot type ext2 (rw) > none on / type tmpfs (ro,size=131072k) > none on /proc type proc (rw) > none on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=200k) > none on /var type tmpfs (rw,size=5000k) > none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,size=10000k) > none on /sys type sysfs (rw) > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=600) > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) > none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) > pbx ~ # > > On 12/08/2010, at 4:28 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >> Can you send us the output of just running "mount" at this point? >> >> >> >> On 8/11/10 3:08 AM, Guy Neale wrote: >>> I've created a VM and booted from an ISO image. /oldroot is mounted to >>> /dev/root but I found no /dev/root or /dev/cdrom device. The /oldroot >>> directory is empty >>> >>> This is the output if I run astinstall from the console. not to sure where >>> to go from here. >>> >>> Installing to /dev/hda... >>> tar: can't open '/oldroot/cdrom/runnix-*.tar.gz': No such file or directory >>> cat: can't open '/tmp/runnix-*/mbr.bin': No such file or directory >>> /usr/sbin/astinstall: line 119: syslinux: command not found >>> cp: cannot stat '/tmp/runnix-*/rootfs_vfat/*': No such file or directory >>> cp: cannot stat '/oldroot/cdrom/os/root.squashfs': No such file or directory >>> cp: cannot stat '/oldroot/cdrom/os/astlinux-0.7.2.run.conf': No such file >>> or directory >>> cp: cannot stat '/oldroot/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img': No such file or >>> directory >>> /usr/sbin/astinstall: line 134: cd: /tmp/runnix/os: No such file or >>> directory >>> sha1sum: can't open 'astlinux-0.7.2.run': No such file or directory >>> touch: /tmp/runnix/os/astflag: No such file or directory >>> >>> >>> On 10/08/2010, at 1:01 PM, Darrick Hartman wrote: >>> >>>> Philip Prindeville wrote: >>>>> On 8/9/10 3:15 PM, John Novack wrote: >>>>>> Any plans to fix the install script on the ISO? A couple of folks I was >>>>>> trying to interest in AstLinux report that install from the ISO is >>>>>> broken. >>>>>> >>>>>> Also, one wag installed AstLinux to an 80 Gig Hard drive, and after a >>>>>> couple of attempts discovered that the timer built into the setup web >>>>>> page wasn't long enough for an 80 gig drive to finish formatting! >>>>>> >>>>>> Don't ask me why he wanted to install on an 80 Gig drive! >>>>>> >>>>>> John Novack >>>>>> >>>>> Actually, it seems to be a fairly trivial fix... I'm guessing it's a one >>>>> liner. >>>>> >>>>> I just don't have the time nor the VM set up to quickly do >>>>> testing/debugging. >>>>> >>>>> Someone previously pointed out that it was looking for the image at a >>>>> particular mount point, but said that wasn't present... which was mildly >>>>> helpful. >>>>> >>>>> What would have been even more helpful would have been telling us what >>>>> was mounted, and where, at that exact moment. >>>>> >>>>> It could just be that everything needed is present... just not in the >>>>> right places... and a simple one line path change needs to happen. >>>> It's more than one line, but not too much more than that. >>>> >>>> It's a matter of reading through the bat files on the iso. There really >>>> could be one iso with all of the install images on it. That would >>>> definitely be a few more lines. >>>> >>>> It's on the list, but not at the top of the list. If someone wanted to >>>> make an attempt at this, we'd accept that work. >>>> >>>> Darrick >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net email is sponsored by >> >> Make an app they can't live without >> Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Astlinux-users mailing list >> Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >> >> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >> pay...@krisk.org. >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
