On Feb 11, 2008 4:26 AM, Allan Menezes <[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.
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