Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails -SUCCESS
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:21 PM, David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb wrote: All solved - I did not read all that Pia has written on the XS installing server wiki page - it's all there. I missed the bit about editing ks.cfg I didn't know WTF you were talking about. Looking at the wikipage, looks like Pia has found that removing the driveorder line solves the problem. Great find! (I just wish I had heard of it earlier!) Pia, how did you figure that out? Is there more info that would be good to know on that track? Got hit with this today - RH kbase http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-15568 Skipping driverorder seems safe, but I don't want to respin retest 0.5.2 -- will be in the next release... http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9291 m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- 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-de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails -SUCCESS
Martin, All solved - I did not read all that Pia has written on the XS installing server wiki page - it's all there. I missed the bit about editing ks.cfg Well done Pia and sorry to be too impatient to follow instructions :) I now have 0.5.1 running on the eBox David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands Alternative email address: leemingda...@yahoo.com.au -Original Message- From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langh...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 16 February 2009 6:49 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: qu...@laptop.org; server-de...@lists.laptop.org; Pia Waugh Subject: Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails -SUCCESS On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:40 PM, David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb wrote: OK it worked thanks to all of you. You were all right. A combination of weird small errors with hardware and sum packages that weren't installed on Ubuntu... Good to hear you found the way to get it started... HOWEVER - the installation fails right at the end when performing post-installation config - installing bootloader: An unhandled exception occurred. This is most likely a bug. Please save a Yes, I've seen this on various hardware. It's not really a hw bug, it's just some odd incompatibility with the installer sw (anaconda). Can you get your hands on a USB-CDROM? If not, the next step to study is starting up the install from that USB stick, and then telling it it's an NFS-based installation, and pointing it to an NFS server... ... it's a hard road if you don't have a CDROM... :-/ cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- 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-de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails -SUCCESS
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:21 PM, David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb wrote: All solved - I did not read all that Pia has written on the XS installing server wiki page - it's all there. I missed the bit about editing ks.cfg I didn't know WTF you were talking about. Looking at the wikipage, looks like Pia has found that removing the driveorder line solves the problem. Great find! (I just wish I had heard of it earlier!) Pia, how did you figure that out? Is there more info that would be good to know on that track? cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- 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-de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails -SUCCESS
OK it worked thanks to all of you. You were all right. A combination of weird small errors with hardware and sum packages that weren't installed on Ubuntu... Firstly I installed isomd5sum. It now checks the USB... Despite my earlier attempts, and the fact that the stick was working when I first tried (with 0.5.0), and that it appeared fine in partition editor, files visible etc, there WAS a USB hardware problem - a bad fragment that persisted. I tried with another USB stick, simply formatted FAT using a Windows machine which left it already bootable, and YES it all works. No errors with mkusbinstall and booting up nicely into anaconda etc. HOWEVER - the installation fails right at the end when performing post-installation config - installing bootloader: An unhandled exception occurred. This is most likely a bug. Please save a copy of the detailed exception and the bug report against anaconda at your distribution provided bug reporting tool I think this IS a hardware problem, it is reproducible. Any ideas? David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands Alternative email address: leemingda...@yahoo.com.au -Original Message- From: qu...@us.netrek.org [mailto:qu...@us.netrek.org] On Behalf Of qu...@laptop.org Sent: Monday, 16 February 2009 3:35 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: 'Martin Langhoff'; server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails You got Input/Output error during cp read of /media/cdtmp.Rf6276, which I guess is the loopback mounted ISO 9660 file system image. The most common cause of this is truncation of the image, especially if the files on which it occurs are near the end of the image. checkisomd5 is missing. Install it from package isomd5sum on Ubuntu. There may be other tools missing. Use script command to capture all the output as text, so we can have another look. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] mkusbinstall fails -SUCCESS
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:40 PM, David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb wrote: OK it worked thanks to all of you. You were all right. A combination of weird small errors with hardware and sum packages that weren't installed on Ubuntu... Good to hear you found the way to get it started... HOWEVER - the installation fails right at the end when performing post-installation config - installing bootloader: An unhandled exception occurred. This is most likely a bug. Please save a Yes, I've seen this on various hardware. It's not really a hw bug, it's just some odd incompatibility with the installer sw (anaconda). Can you get your hands on a USB-CDROM? If not, the next step to study is starting up the install from that USB stick, and then telling it it's an NFS-based installation, and pointing it to an NFS server... ... it's a hard road if you don't have a CDROM... :-/ cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- 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