I'm getting further!!! sorry, but swup only worked after installing other libs in the root, it doesn't seem to work in an empty partition, so manual creation of / var/lib/rpm and other folders is required.
But I got that far, AND I got mkinitrd working, since the list of modules is empty, I did a trial-n-error session here as well, and now the machine boots, up to login, but after putting in root as username, the password prompt never appears. Probably a /etc/passwd /etc/shadow related problem, but I'll boot in rescue tomorrow, then creating a root user password, and we'll see. I'll probably release this kind of "installer" as a shell script, since I need to have it documented in case this machine needs reinstalling. Stylewise it might look like the openbsd installer (just reads variables from the console). After that I'll have to look at the rescue build process, since I need a few more things in rescue that would be needed on other machines (e.g. mdadm). that's so far ... In case I succeed tomorrow I'll dance around the server room and write afterwards .... matthias On 02.08.2006, at 07:54, Christian Haugan Toldnes wrote: > Matthias Šubik wrote: >> On 01.08.2006, at 19:03, Christian Haugan Toldnes wrote: >>> man swup >> thanks for your fast reply christian, >> but I was thinking about how to get the rpm binary installed when >> the /var/lib/rpm folder isn't on the harddisk yet, and the db4 >> package can't be installed neither without playing around. >> my current solution is to rpm --root=/tmp/target --initdb after >> installing the base packages, then installing them again. >> but that's just my state of experiments ... > > Again. swup solves this too. check out the --root option. ;) > > > > > -- > Christian Haugan Toldnes > Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
