From: Allan M. <ame...@sy...> - 2008-02-11 13:26:28
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eric gisse wrote: > My quest to make OSCAR work at all Fedora 8 has hit some amusing bugs. > > When using the OSCAR_VERBOSE=3 switch, OSCAR occasionally - for no > reason discernable to me - decides to drop a space in one of the > exceedingly large image creation commands [mksiimage] and fucks up > --verbose --force and makes it --verbose--force which confuses the > wizard and makes it cry at the image build step. The problem goes away > when I don't use OSCAR_VERBOSE - it happens on both 3 and 1 from what > I've seen. I haven't tried any others. > > It seems to only happen when I try to overwrite a previous image. Why? > Who knows. I'm still working on cause-and-effect in OSCAR - the > relationships are subtle. > > When your head node doesn't have the space to create the image, it > errors out at the package install point saying <package> needs <more> > space, where <more> starts out at around 15MB and increments anywhere > between 1 and 10 MB through the ~400 packages. It's pretty funny to > see OSCAR demanding 140GB of space. > > The first problem made tracking the 2nd problem frustrating since the > image creation process takes a solid half hour or so because yum > /insists/ on downloading ~250mb of packages every time while ignoring > the local cache I've tried so hard to setup. Hi, Set up the fedora-8-i386.url file so that it only contains the local dvd files of the i386 fc8 distro in /tftpboot/distro/fedora-8-i386.url to contain only the line /tftpboot/distro/fedora-8-i386 where you will have put the the fc8 dvd files. Also after doing this goto /opt/oscar/scripts and do ./start_over to restart the installation. Log out and log in back as root as it asks you to after doing ./start_over. Hope this helps! Allan Menezes > > The second problem does handily explain why the image creation process > failed intermittently. I have been fiddling with caches and wasn't > paying attention to disk space. I'm doing this in VMware, where I can > make snapshots and create known good states so I can rebuild/track > broken shit more easily. > > Also, it seems that while FC8 treats everything as if it were SCSI, > that does not mean a SCSI format system will work on an IDE disk. > Worth a shot. I'm building an IDE-specific image now. > > I have spent way too much goddamn time on this. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. >http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Oscar-devel mailing list >Osc...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > > |