How to build a custom ISO?
Hello! Is there any recommended way to create a custom ISO installer? I have no X on my SL just pure console. I've read that revisor is old and not supported but pungi is great. I've tried pungi under Fedora 17 for cross build without success (packages were downloaded but some problems with anaconda at building boot image stage). CentOS 6.3 does not have pungi. I think SL does not have pungi as well. So revisor is the only tool for building such images here in SL land? Bye, a
Re: How to build a custom ISO?
On 08/16/2012 08:38 AM, Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! Is there any recommended way to create a custom ISO installer? I have no X on my SL just pure console. I've read that revisor is old and not supported but pungi is great. I've tried pungi under Fedora 17 for cross build without success (packages were downloaded but some problems with anaconda at building boot image stage). CentOS 6.3 does not have pungi. I think SL does not have pungi as well. So revisor is the only tool for building such images here in SL land? Bye, a Revisor is the recommended tool for SL6. You always have the option of rolling by hand. I use a set of modified scripts to roll custom SL5 images based on the documentation on the SL's website and from searching the web. If you simply want to customize the packages, you can make the necessary changes, rebuild the repo data, update the comps files, and build the image. Remember, SL and TUV are _not_ bleeding edge like Fedora. Just because the bleeding edge calls something old doesn't mean it is garbage and useless. It just means someone has come up with a new/different way of accomplishing the same task. -Mark -- Mr. Mark V. Stodola Senior Control Systems Engineer National Electrostatics Corp. P.O. Box 620310 Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA Phone: (608) 831-7600 Fax: (608) 831-9591
SL 6.3 pcscd smart card daemon does not survive reboot
Smart Card not working after upgrade to 6.3 chkconfig --list pcscd pcscd 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off chkconfig --list haldaemon haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on4:on5:on6:off After rebooting I get this /etc/init.d/pcscd status pcscd dead but subsys locked /var/log/messages: pcscd: hotplug_libhal.c:490:HPRegisterForHotplugEvents() Could not initialise connection to hald. pcscd: hotplug_libhal.c:491:HPRegisterForHotplugEvents() Normally this means the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or not ready. pcscd: pcscdaemon.c:525:main() SVCServiceRunLoop returned pcscd: pcscdaemon.c:531:at_exit() cleaning /var/run I compared the RC startup scripts on 6.3 and 6.2 On 6.3: /etc/rc.d/rc5.d S26haldaemon S25pcscd On 6.2: /etc/rc.d/rc5.d S26haldaemon S26pcscd Currently Installed RPMS on 6.3: chkconfig-1.3.49.3-2.el6.x86_64 initscripts-9.03.31-2.el6.x86_64 pcsc-lite-1.5.2-7.el6.x86_64 Currently Installed RPMS on 6.2 chkconfig-1.3.47-1.el6.x86_64 initscripts-9.03.27-1.el6.x86_64 pcsc-lite-1.5.2-6.el6.x86_64
Re: How to build a custom ISO?
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! Is there any recommended way to create a custom ISO installer? I have no X on my SL just pure console. I've read that revisor is old and not supported but pungi is great. I've tried pungi under Fedora 17 for cross build without success (packages were downloaded but some problems with anaconda at building boot image stage). CentOS 6.3 does not have pungi. I think SL does not have pungi as well. So revisor is the only tool for building such images here in SL land? It is what we use to build SL 6 . Revisor is include in the release along with the config files used to build the release. -Connie Sieh Bye, a
Re: How to build a custom ISO?
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Mark Stodola stod...@pelletron.com wrote: On 08/16/2012 08:38 AM, Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! Is there any recommended way to create a custom ISO installer? I have no X on my SL just pure console. I've read that revisor is old and not supported but pungi is great. I've tried pungi under Fedora 17 for cross build without success (packages were downloaded but some problems with anaconda at building boot image stage). CentOS 6.3 does not have pungi. I think SL does not have pungi as well. So revisor is the only tool for building such images here in SL land? Bye, a Revisor is the recommended tool for SL6. You always have the option of rolling by hand. I use a set of modified scripts to roll custom SL5 images based on the documentation on the SL's website and from searching the web. If you simply want to customize the packages, you can make the necessary changes, rebuild the repo data, update the comps files, and build the image. Thank you. Remember, SL and TUV are _not_ bleeding edge like Fedora. Just because the bleeding edge calls something old doesn't mean it is garbage and useless. It just means someone has come up with a new/different way of accomplishing the same task. That is clear for me and I do not think that old means useless. As I would like to keep myself in picture I am using several Linux distribution and one of them is Fedora 17. As Fedora is similar to TUV (and SL and CentOS) and uses RPM I think that cross building is possible. But that is not the case. Bye, a
Re: How to build a custom ISO?
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! Is there any recommended way to create a custom ISO installer? I have no X on my SL just pure console. I've read that revisor is old and not supported but pungi is great. I've tried pungi under Fedora 17 for cross build without success (packages were downloaded but some problems with anaconda at building boot image stage). CentOS 6.3 does not have pungi. I think SL does not have pungi as well. So revisor is the only tool for building such images here in SL land? It is what we use to build SL 6 . Revisor is include in the release along with the config files used to build the release. Thank you. Bye, a
What do you use for a contacts manager?
Hi All, SL 6.2, x64 I am looking for a simple contacts manager. I like Contacts, but I can not figure out how to import my CSV contacts list from Windows into it. Contacts will supposedly import a VCF, but I can not figure out how to translate a CSV into a VCF. And, if I am not mistaken, isn't a VCF one record at a time, not a whole address book? Do you guys have a favorite simple contact manager/address book that will import a CSV? Many thanks, -T
Re: What do you use for a contacts manager?
On 08/16/2012 05:30 PM, zxq9 wrote: On 08/17/2012 03:41 AM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, SL 6.2, x64 I am looking for a simple contacts manager. I like Contacts, but I can not figure out how to import my CSV contacts list from Windows into it. Contacts will supposedly import a VCF, but I can not figure out how to translate a CSV into a VCF. And, if I am not mistaken, isn't a VCF one record at a time, not a whole address book? Do you guys have a favorite simple contact manager/address book that will import a CSV? CSV can mean anything, so there is no universal way to import a CSV file (it just means that each field is separated by a comma, but there is no way to tell what order the fields are in). What program exported the CSV file from Windows? If the CSV isn't very complicated then it wouldn't be too hard to put a script together to convert your data, and there probably already is a tool for that floating around somewhere. The CSV came from Lotus Smart Suite Address Book. The headers, after I turned the database into a CSV, look like this: 0 xFirst Name xLast Name xTitle xJob Title xCompany Name xStreet Address xCity xState xZip xCountry/Region xPhone xExtension xFax xEmail yStreet Address yCity yState yZip yCountry/Region yPhone yFax yEmail But, I can make the headers anything I want. My big issue is how to import VCF into Contacts. Or, dump Contacts for something more import friendly. And, I though VCF was one record at a time. I have tried changing the headers to Outlook's and using csv2vcard, but I only get a single VCF record with no data, just VCF tags. I suppose if I can not find anything better than Contacts, I could crack Contacts database directly and create a new database for Contacts. But what a pain in the neck. Thank you for the help, -T
