forwarding to sisuite-devel.
si truncates the mtab file within the image:
# Truncate the /etc/mtab file. It can cause confusion on the autoinstall
# client, making it think that filesystems are mounted when they really
# aren't. And because it is automatically updated on running systems, we
# don't really need it for anything anyway. -BEF-
#
# We don't just remove it because, at least in the case of RedHat,
# /proc/bus/usb will not be mounted and usb will not work the first time
# the system boots because it fails to truncate a non-existant /etc/mtab
#
i don't really know the best solution here - maybe SC could test for an
empty /etc/mtab, and if it finds one, temporarily link it to /proc/partitions?
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:57:27AM +0100, Ian Braithwaite wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had exactly the same problem with Grub.
>
> I found out that the image on the server didn't contain an
> /etc/mtab file, and that this was causing systemconfigurator to fail.
> I solved that by manually creating a suitable /etc/mtab file on the server.
>
> Looking at the server now, I can see that subsequent updateimage
> operations have overwritten my hand-created file with a copy from
> a running client.
>
> Anyway, I havn't had any problems with bootloaders since.
>
>
> The only other problem I had worth mentioning was with the sizes
> of disk partitions. The default install script seems to create
> partitions that are only just big enough. This doesn't work for
> very long (log files, caches...), infact the X font server wouldn't
> even start. I hand edited the script to create more sensible partition
> sizes.
>
> Systemimager is pretty awesome!
>
>
> Ian Braithwaite
>
>
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