Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Which was one of my suggestions, only I wouldn't use labels, but uuids (not
every partition has a label, all have uuids).
However, every other udev update breaks labels and uuids for device-mapper
d
Simo Leone schrieb:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:29:17PM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4chler_
wrote:
I haven't look at the code, but make sure the UUIDs are only used to
/dev/sd* and /dev/hd*, don't use them for /dev/mapper. That way, we avoid
weird bugs.
Yes I can make those changes. I ju
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:29:17PM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4chler_
wrote:
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> I haven't look at the code, but make sure the UUIDs are only used to
> /dev/sd* and /dev/hd*, don't use them for /dev/mapper. That way, we avoid
> weird bugs.
>
Yes I can make those changes. I just hacked this
Aaron Griffin schrieb:
> I would say: use UUIDs and document where and when breakage occurs
> (device-mapper). Let's face it, a vast majority of people probably
> don't use lvm or crypto devices... and those that do are knowledgeable
> enough to know they may need special configuration dances
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:02:44PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
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> You modified the installer to use UUIDs? Neat. Do you have the code up
> somewhere?
>
http://code.neotuli.net/gitweb/?p=installer.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec8243f25f7a81baf55ae039a8489ae30479b8f3
$(blkid -s UUID -o value ${_device}) sho
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You modified the installer to use UUIDs? Neat. Do you have the code up
> somewhere?
http://code.neotuli.net/gitweb/?p=installer.git;a=blobdiff;f=setup;h=a0eae8630304dbd016cd35d66a030849d6ea9846;hp=14557efe4af1072851574a34
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Simo Leone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 07:56:27PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Which was one of my suggestions, only I wouldn't use labels, but uuids
> (
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 07:56:27PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Which was one of my suggestions, only I wouldn't use labels, but uuids (not
> > every partition has a label, all have uuids).
> >
> > However, every other
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which was one of my suggestions, only I wouldn't use labels, but uuids (not
> every partition has a label, all have uuids).
>
> However, every other udev update breaks labels and uuids for device-mapper
> devices (like lv
Dan McGee schrieb:
And then we are back to square one- having the installer being tightly
coupled with a particular live CD. You should be able to run the
installer from any environment, including another distro. Obviously we
have a lot of work to do in order to make this possible, but the above
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:42:41PM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4chler_
wrote:
>> The next issue is the "remember what you chose and put it in the
>> system's mkinitcpio.conf". How about "No"? Why on earth do we need to
>> automate things for the users as long as we document it in the install
>
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan McGee schrieb:
> > The next issue is the "remember what you chose and put it in the
> > system's mkinitcpio.conf". How about "No"? Why on earth do we need to
> > automate things for the users as long as we document it i
Dan McGee schrieb:
One is IDE drivers vs. PATA drivers. I can verify that my SiS board
does not boot so hot with the current PATA drivers, so I am still
using IDE. I think two initrds might be a great idea here.
Thank god my SiS board is broken :)
The next issue is the "remember what you chos
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin schrieb:
>
>
> >
> > > pointed out.. system would not boot, I needed to change my /dev/hda2
> > > references to /dev/sda2 references in fstab and grub menu.lst.
> Installation
> > > used legacy IDE drivers, bo
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin schrieb:
>
>
> >
> > > pointed out.. system would not boot, I needed to change my /dev/hda2
> > > references to /dev/sda2 references in fstab and grub menu.lst.
> Installation
> > > used legacy IDE drivers, bo
Aaron Griffin schrieb:
pointed out.. system would not boot, I needed to change my /dev/hda2
references to /dev/sda2 references in fstab and grub menu.lst. Installation
used legacy IDE drivers, boot used PATA drivers.
PATA should be the default now! Almost nobody will need IDE (except maybe
for s
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul Mattal schrieb:
>
>
> > Networking worked great, but I stumbled directly across the problem Thomas
> pointed out.. system would not boot, I needed to change my /dev/hda2
> references to /dev/sda2 references in fstab an
Paul Mattal schrieb:
Networking worked great, but I stumbled directly across the problem
Thomas pointed out.. system would not boot, I needed to change my
/dev/hda2 references to /dev/sda2 references in fstab and grub menu.lst.
Installation used legacy IDE drivers, boot used PATA drivers.
PAT
Simo Leone wrote:
First off, thanks for the feedback last week. Most of the issues were
minor and not-too-technical, so they weren't too tricky to iron out.
Another batch of images has been generated with suggested improvements,
they can be found at:
http://dev.archlinux.org/~simo/archiso_tests/
Simo Leone schrieb:
First off, thanks for the feedback last week. Most of the issues were
minor and not-too-technical, so they weren't too tricky to iron out.
There is an issue I already discussed with Aaron on jabber, which we
should be very careful about:
We need to be extremely careful ab
First off, thanks for the feedback last week. Most of the issues were
minor and not-too-technical, so they weren't too tricky to iron out.
Another batch of images has been generated with suggested improvements,
they can be found at:
http://dev.archlinux.org/~simo/archiso_tests/installer/
This tim
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