On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 15:37, Kevin Murphy wrote:
> I finally ended up booting the boxes on the 32-bit kernel, installing a
> minimal set of 32 bit binaries needed to run the SystemConfigurator
> stuff after the chroot on the gold client, and tweaking the PATHs in the
> autoinstall script to point to the 32 bit binaries.
>
> Ugly. But it works.
Kevin,
Just how "minimal" were the set of binaries to run systemconfigurator?
Running systemconfigurator requires perl. Did you include an entire
32-bit perl tree in that minimal set?
With your advice on the environmental variables and the chroot process
I was able to successfully chroot into the newly rsynced client. In
order to do this I had to build a static, 32-bit bash as well as a
static busybox and install them in a /bin32 directory on the new client.
After doing this I was able to chroot and run any of the busybox linked
commands. At this point you cannot run systemconfigurator because it
requires perl and the 32-bit shell cannot execute the perl in the 64-bit
distro.
I tried to bypass perl and whittle the install script to directly run
grub-install to, at least, get a booting client. Alas grub is a 64-bit
binary as well. I compiled a static version of grub
but it relies on several other binaries in the OS that cannot be
executed by the 32-bit shell.
You got this to work so I must have taken a wrong turn and ended up in
the weeds. I'd like to know some detail of what you did to get the
chroot final processing to work, especially with systemconfigurator. On
the path I am currently on I will have my own 32-bit mini-distro if I
have to put anymore "stuff" in there.
Thank you,
Jeff
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