Re: [Server-devel] installing a school server
Joshua N Pritikin wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:57:47AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: Yes, but you will need to tweak the kickstart file on the image (no do your own partitioning option yet, sorry). By default, the XS install CD will wipe the disk and setup an LVM (w/o RAID). I modified the kickstart file following the procedure: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/squashfs-surgery I did this on an Ubuntu hardy machine with kernel 2.6.24-19. When I try to boot the USB stick, it fails with: ... Done copying live image to RAM. SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, trying to mount newer 3.1 filesystem SQUASHFS error: Please update your kernel mount: wrong fs type, bad open, bad superblock on /dev/loop120 ... Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck! I hit the same error using the Run from image option. Suggestions? What version of squashfs-tools are you using? If it 3.3.x try adding -no-sparse -b 64k to the mksqushfs call Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] installing a school server
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:06:17AM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: What version of squashfs-tools are you using? If it 3.3.x try adding -no-sparse -b 64k to the mksqushfs call Yup, that worked. However, my kickstart modifications were not successful. My hard drive got repartitioned. Eventually grub failed to install. I'm not sure why. After I installed grub manually then the system refused to up all the way up, possibly due to a bad hard drive. Now that I lost my data anyway, I'll just use a clean XS_165 install to a different hard drive and see what happens. ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] installing a school server
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] installing a school server To: Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just to get something working, I installed Ubuntu with Squid/Dansguardian. I have about 200Gb of hard drive and 2G RAM. Can I get an ext2 image of the school server and load it on a logical partition? I prefer to store anything important on LVM+RAID1. Does the school server understand this disk format? Yes, but you will need to tweak the kickstart file on the image (no do your own partitioning option yet, sorry). By default, the XS install CD will wipe the disk and setup an LVM (w/o RAID). Joshua, I have documented some of the challenges with LVM+RAID1 here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-sw You can do RAID1 on a single drive, but it doesn't provide any added protection. To customize the XS ISO so that it allows your own partitioning, the process is here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/squashfs-surgery Tony Pearson (az990tony)___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] installing a school server
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally got a reasonably fast internet connection at our school in India (BSNL EV-DO). I would like to try to install the school server. We have 15 XO laptops. Excellent. Just to get something working, I installed Ubuntu with Squid/Dansguardian. I have about 200Gb of hard drive and 2G RAM. Can I get an ext2 image of the school server and load it on a logical partition? I prefer to store anything important on LVM+RAID1. Does the school server understand this disk format? Yes, but you will need to tweak the kickstart file on the image (no do your own partitioning option yet, sorry). By default, the XS install CD will wipe the disk and setup an LVM (w/o RAID). cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] installing a school server
I finally got a reasonably fast internet connection at our school in India (BSNL EV-DO). I would like to try to install the school server. We have 15 XO laptops. Just to get something working, I installed Ubuntu with Squid/Dansguardian. I have about 200Gb of hard drive and 2G RAM. Can I get an ext2 image of the school server and load it on a logical partition? I prefer to store anything important on LVM+RAID1. Does the school server understand this disk format? ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
