Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs
On Mar 29, 2012 5:52 PM, Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca wrote: (btw installing straight from cd never worked for me as it failed on the disk partitioning regardless of the options I chose) I've seen that happen when the disk has strange partitioning information. Anaconda queries the disk, gets confused, and eventually dies. We had this after trying to use a HW RAID, and then abandoning that plan for SW RAID. The RAID controller had written some odd partitioning data on the disks. Can't remember what we did to un-jinx it. Probably switched to a VT early under the installer and used fdisk to write some bog-standard partition anaconda could make sense of :-) m ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs
funny thing is that it works fine under cobbler. anaconda offered to reinitialize the partition and I let it, but still didn't help. From: Martin Langhoff Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 7:04 AM To: Tim Moody Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs On Mar 29, 2012 5:52 PM, Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca wrote: (btw installing straight from cd never worked for me as it failed on the disk partitioning regardless of the options I chose) I've seen that happen when the disk has strange partitioning information. Anaconda queries the disk, gets confused, and eventually dies. We had this after trying to use a HW RAID, and then abandoning that plan for SW RAID. The RAID controller had written some odd partitioning data on the disks. Can't remember what we did to un-jinx it. Probably switched to a VT early under the installer and used fdisk to write some bog-standard partition anaconda could make sense of :-) m ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs
(btw installing straight from cd never worked for me as it failed on the disk partitioning regardless of the options I chose) From a kickstart file or by hand in the installer? using the cd and taking the kickstart option. Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs
In our local case, the deployment purchased a supposedly RHEL-compliant server which lacked a Linux driver for its built-in RAID controller. This RAID controller created disk partitions which spanned the full size of each disk drive. These partitions appeared when the lower-level disk controller(s) were accessed directly after the RAID controller was turned off, and caused anaconda to die whenever it tried to figure out a partitioning scheme with already-full disks. Fdisk was used to delete these partitions from a Linux terminal console, and then anaconda was happy. The inverse situation also needs to be watched out for: If you are using a Linux-supported hardware RAID controller, the individual disks/controllers below it may still be accessible, and installing directly on those could make the RAID controller unhappy. On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Tim Moody timmo...@sympatico.ca wrote: (btw installing straight from cd never worked for me as it failed on the disk partitioning regardless of the options I chose) From a kickstart file or by hand in the installer? using the cd and taking the kickstart option. Jerry __**_ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/**listinfo/server-develhttp://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs
That is not a package, the @ makes it a group definition in the *comps.xml file in /repodata on the XS iso image. You must loopback mount the iso to view the file, then have a look for that string. Well, you're right as usual. (also I said xs-pkgs remembering 0.6, when I should have said olpc-xs). I found a file '83aa5dc6a7d65fb600d12d70ec102379a719c6bad8b6acc5c0276a8439ad251f-OLPC School Server-0.7-comps.xml' in which I found group idolpc-xs/id defaulttrue/default uservisibletrue/uservisible display_order1024/display_order nameOLPC XS/name descriptionThis group is the XS server group of packages/description packagelist packagereq type=mandatoryds-backup-server/packagereq packagereq type=mandatoryidmgr/packagereq packagereq type=mandatorymoodle-xs/packagereq packagereq type=mandatoryolpc-bios-crypto/packagereq packagereq type=mandatoryusbmount/packagereq packagereq type=mandatoryxs-activation/packagereq packagereq type=mandatoryxs-activity-server/packagereq packagereq type=mandatoryxs-config/packagereq packagereq type=mandatoryxs-rsync/packagereq packagereq type=mandatoryxs-tools/packagereq packagereq type=defaultacpid/packagereq packagereq type=defaultntp/packagereq packagereq type=defaultpuppet/packagereq /packagelist /group Still don't know why this didn't install. The anaconda-ks.cfg after the install only shows the following. Does the XS need to be able to reach the internet in order for the install to succeed? %packages @Base @Core %end so it looks like these didn't install @system-admin-tools @olpc-xs xs-release epel-release yum groupinstall OLPC XS only succeeded after I deleted everything in /etc/yum.repos.d/ except my local repo. This included external mirrors for Centos and olpcxs. How do they get into this directory? ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
