Re: [Cooker] Whole Day Shot Trying HD & Network Installation

[Frank Griffin]

Felix Miata wrote:

Eventually I got set up for NFS install, and that won't even get out of
text mode. Each time, right after entering server IP and directory it
just sits there, and on tty3, last line I see is 'preparing nfsmount for
[IP]:[dir]', and no evidence that SCSI ever loaded. Has SCSI support
been deleted from the boot floppies? I can't remember when the previous
versions asked for SCSI support confirmation.
The network installs (actually, all installs) support SCSI.  I recently 
did one to an aic79xx SCSI system, and that driver was only included 
during this cycle.  It should probe your system and put up popups saying 
which driver it's trying. 

It sounds like your NFS setup is somehow wrong; check the syslog of the 
system which owns the exported drive.

Is ftp or CD install the only way that works for rc1? I really don't
like burning CD's for betas, and I've never figured out how to select a
ftp or http source for installation. Where do I point the installer for
ftp or http?
 

The easiest way for all these installs, as explained to me previously 
here, is to boot the isolinux/alt0 image.  Then you can pick the install 
you want (HD, NFS, HTTP, etc.) and get prompted for the needed info.

Put the following entry in lilo.conf, where "/data/cooker" is the root 
of your cooker tree:

image=/data/cooker/i586/isolinux/alt0/vmlinuz
       label=isolinux
       root=/dev/ram3
       initrd=/data/cooker/i586/isolinux/alt0/all.rdz
       append="ramdisk_size=32000"
       read-only
You don't need to have a cooker tree; you can just retrieve vmlinuz and 
all.rdz from i586/isolinux/alt0 at a cooker site, put them somewhere, 
and point lilo to them.  You need to rerun LILO each time these get 
refreshed or moved.