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.
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
The second problem does handily explain why the image creation process
failed intermittently. I have been fiddling with caches and wasn't
paying attention to disk space. I'm doing this in VMware, where I can
make snapshots and create known good states so I can rebuild/track
broken shit more easily.
Also, it seems that while FC8 treats everything as if it were SCSI,
that does not mean a SCSI format system will work on an IDE disk.
Worth a shot. I'm building an IDE-specific image now.
I have spent way too much goddamn time on this.
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