I want to personally confirm the RHEL4 issue
before I go talking of wolves or the sky ;-)
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David N. Lombard
My comments represent my opinions, not
those of Intel Corporation.
From: Bernard Li
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005
9:58 AM
To: Lombard, David N;
[email protected]
Subject: RE: [Oscar-devel] Support
for Fedora Core 3 and Mandrake 10.1
Great - thanks for doing this Dave.
And spill the beans about disk partitions
- the sooner we hear about it, the sooner we can figure out how to get around
it ;-)
Thanks,
Bernard
From: Lombard,
David N [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005
9:53
To: Bernard Li;
[email protected]
Subject: RE: [Oscar-devel] Support
for Fedora Core 3 and Mandrake 10.1
Running MAKEDEV is a manual _expression_ of
installing the RPM.
I’ll do some investigations to see
what the proper approach is; I’m fairly certain I already know the
answer, but want to confirm that I don’t propose a transitional model
that will not be supported.
BTW, only marginally related, we’ll
apparently have some issues to resolve w/ disk partitions on RHEL4.
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David N. Lombard
My comments represent my opinions, not
those of Intel Corporation.
From: Bernard Li
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005
9:46 AM
To: Lombard, David N;
[email protected]
Subject: RE: [Oscar-devel] Support
for Fedora Core 3 and Mandrake 10.1
Hi Dave:
I actually installed the dev RPM from
Fedora Core 2 on a Fedora Core 3 image, and it worked.
But as you mention, it is not used any
more so maybe we shouldn't take this route - do you have any suggestions?
Perhaps run MAKEDEV manually, then?
Cheers,
Bernard
From: Lombard,
David N [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005
7:45
To: Bernard Li;
[email protected]
Subject: RE: [Oscar-devel] Support
for Fedora Core 3 and Mandrake 10.1
Wait a second. The old
“dev” model, where an RPM created countless “devices”
in /dev to accommodate every possible device a user may have is NOT used
anymore. Creating this RPM is wrong and (practically) guaranteed to fail.
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David N. Lombard
My comments represent my opinions, not
those of Intel Corporation.
From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard Li
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 8:29
PM
To:
[email protected]
Subject: [Oscar-devel] Support for
Fedora Core 3 and Mandrake 10.1
I have previously mentioned that support for Fedora Core 3
and Mandrake 10.1 cannot happen until systemconfigurator works with udev.
Turns out, udev was not the problem, it was the absence of dev (at least that's
what I think is the case now).
I was prompted by Sean Dague (original author of
systemconfigurator) to use lilo instead of grub when I build the image, and by
doing so, it lead me to a discovery -
The /dev directory on the image is empty (except for 2
files) and this caused problems when systemconfigurator tries to set up the
boot loader.
In Fedora Core 3 (and I assume Mandrake 10.1), they have
removed the dev RPM. This RPM basically creates the links to the commonly
used devices in /dev. We can get around this problem in 2 ways:
1) manually install the dev RPM on the image (since the
distro CDs do not provide it, we have to ship it ourselves)
2) run the MAKEDEV program manually to create the links for
the particular HD types that the user has for the nodes
This step needs to be done after the image is built, and
before the image is deployed.
We can potentially fasttrack the support for Fedora Core 3
and Mandrake 10.1, pending some other issues - eg. will this work for grub
also...? And finding a modprobe.conf 'solution'.
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