Hi,

I struggled for a while to create a Meego image, but finally managed to
do it. I had a few troubles, which I thought I should share in case they
might be useful for the troubleshooting sections of
http://wiki.meego.com/Image_Creation and
http://wiki.meego.com/Image_Creation_For_Beginners


My host machine is Fedora 12, and the command I am using is from the
above image creation guides.

#>  sudo mic-image-creator --config=meego-preview-netbook-core.ks
--format=vmdk --cache=mycache

This is the summary of the problems and below is the detail 
1) Proxy Configuration Problem
2) Missing extlinux problem


1) Proxy Configuration Problem--------------------------------------
http://wiki.meego.com/Image_Creation_For_Beginners says that you can
have a local config file called ~/.mic2_sys.conf to put the proxy and
cache details in. However, this doesn't work.

Later I found in http://wiki.meego.com/Image_Creation that the config
file is actually called ~/.mic2.conf. Once I put my proxy settings in
this file it worked.

So can 'Image Creation For Beginners' and 'Image Creation' guides be
made the same?



2) Missing extlinux problem---------------------------------------
mic2 failed with the following error:

Error: failed to create image : Needed file: /sbin/extlinux not found,
please check your installation

After much googling and messing about I managed to 'fix' this by:
Downloading syslinux-3.86.tar.bz2 
from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/
Unpacking it
#> tar xvf syslinux-3.86.tar.bz2
copying the extlinux executable to /sbin
#> sudo cp syslinux-3.86/extlinux/extllinux /sbin

Not sure if this is the correct way to do this but it worked. 

By the way syslinux was already installed before I tried to build a
Meego image. yum said "Package syslinux-3.85-5.1.i386 already installed
and latest version" but I still needed to do the above to sort it out.


Anyhow after that it all worked and I have my image. Just need to work
out how to run it....

Paul



 
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