Hi guys, Well, my fedora-8-i386.url is > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat fedora-8-i386.url > file:/tftpboot/distro/fedora-8-i386 > http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os
As you can see, mine is not the dvd one but everything containing all the rpms (DVD + updates + etc). Yes, I confirm that the DVD repo and DVD does not have all the rpms that we need and we should use the "Everything" repository. I have never tested OSCAR 5.1 b1 or branch-5-1 on VMware and mine is just a normal P4 machine. The VMWare behavior may cause some problems that we have not expected but I have never encountered eric's problems on my physical machines. So eric, can you please try to play with OSCAR 5.1 b1 on an actual machine when you have a chance? Please post again if you still have the same problems. Regards, - DongInn eric gisse wrote: > > > On Feb 11, 2008 4:26 AM, Allan Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > eric gisse wrote: >> My quest to make OSCAR work at all Fedora 8 has hit some amusing bugs. >> >> When using the OSCAR_VERBOSE=3 switch, OSCAR occasionally - for no >> reason discernable to me - decides to drop a space in one of the >> exceedingly large image creation commands [mksiimage] and fucks up >> --verbose --force and makes it --verbose--force which confuses the >> wizard and makes it cry at the image build step. The problem goes >> away when I don't use OSCAR_VERBOSE - it happens on both 3 and 1 >> from what I've seen. I haven't tried any others. >> >> It seems to only happen when I try to overwrite a previous image. >> Why? Who knows. I'm still working on cause-and-effect in OSCAR - >> the relationships are subtle. >> >> When your head node doesn't have the space to create the image, it >> errors out at the package install point saying <package> needs >> <more> space, where <more> starts out at around 15MB and >> increments anywhere between 1 and 10 MB through the ~400 packages. >> It's pretty funny to see OSCAR demanding 140GB of space. >> >> The first problem made tracking the 2nd problem frustrating since >> the image creation process takes a solid half hour or so because >> yum /insists/ on downloading ~250mb of packages every time while >> ignoring the local cache I've tried so hard to setup. > Hi, > Set up the fedora-8-i386.url file so that it only contains the local > dvd files of the i386 fc8 distro in > /tftpboot/distro/fedora-8-i386.url to contain only the line > /tftpboot/distro/fedora-8-i386 where you will have put the the fc8 > dvd files. > > > Won't work. That was one of the first things I tried. Thanks for the > suggestion though. > > It turns out that the FC8 DVD [i386 & x86_64] lacks about 300 or so > packages that are required to install OSCAR successfully. Though I use > "sucessfully" liberally, since the furthest I have gotten is attempting > to load the created image onto a system which fails for one reason or > another. > > The image [scsi & IDE] is properly built now, but a netboot using a > vmware node fails. But I think that's a vmware quirk and not a fedora / > oscar / sis problem. I'm putting the 12 gb worth of vmware stuff onto my > laptop and I'm just gonna use that instead of rebuilding the dell server > for the umpteenth time. I should have thought of that two weeks ago - > would have saved an hour or forty. > > > > Also after doing this goto /opt/oscar/scripts and do ./start_over to > restart the installation. Log out and log in back as root as it asks > you to after doing ./start_over. > Hope this helps! > Allan Menezes > > > I'm also using vmware becuase ./start_over doesn't quite work 100% in my > experience. It leaves a plethora of opkg, yume, and oscar_* packages > installed. > > [...] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
