Re: [Thinstation-developer] RE: hdinstall [WAS:] Module Dependency

[Trevor B. <tre...@us...>]

Have you tried copying them into the packages/debug/bin directory and using
them?

I used the fdisk with the centos build directly under TS and it worked fine....

Trevor B
PS. cinch uses grub and/or syslinux for subsequent booting. I was going to add
in a loadlin option.

Quoting TechFan <lis...@ou...>:

> I don't have those other tools available at the moment and not sure what
> is required to get them for TS. . .will probably need to stick with
> Knoppix solution for now.  I have been using cfdisk and mkfs -t dos  and
> lilo so far. . .just wish it didn't take so long to boot knoppix.  It
> would be nice to have it come down via tftp actually. . .hm.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Trevor Batley <tre...@us...>
> *To:* TechFan <lis...@ou...>
> *CC:* Miles Roper <mr...@we...>, Thinstation developer
> <thi...@li...>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:21:30 PM
> *Subject:* [Thinstation-developer] RE: hdinstall [WAS:] Module Dependency
>
>
> >Quoting TechFan <lis...@ou...>:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Where is this cinch script anyway?  Might be able to use it temporarily
> >>without being a package. . .
> >>
> >>
> >
> >No, It is a full installation package, including approx. 20 scripts & uses a
> 2
> >stage install process (and it's set up to do an install from yum
> repositories).
> >
> >Easiest way (for a temporary fix), is to get a copy of fdisk, mkdosfs &
> mtools
> >and add them into the debug package. Make sure you include wget (or if you
> >know/remember the tftp syntax, you can use that).
> >
> >At the debug promp, swap into another console and:
> >fdisk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0
> >and setup your partitions
> >mkdosfs /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
> >this will format the whole partition as either FAT-12 or FAT-16 depending on
> >size (add -F 32 if you want FAT-32)
> >cd /tmp
> >wget <your vmlinuz,initrd,syslinux, syslinux.cfg>
> >mcopy vmlinuz /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
> >& the rest
> >make sure syslinux.cfg is set up corretly for your disk layout
> >syslinux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0
> >reboot
> >And hopefully it will boot from disk.......
> >
> >Caveat: this is from memory, so check the syntax (google for man <command>).
> >
> >Trevor B
> >
> >
> >
> >>Thanks.
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>*From:* Trevor Batley <tre...@us...>
> >>*To:* Miles Roper <mr...@we...>
> >>*CC:* Thinstation developer <thi...@li...>
> >>*Sent:* Tuesday, June 07, 2005 8:43:42 AM
> >>*Subject:* [Thinstation-developer] RE: hdinstall [WAS:] Module Dependency
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Ta!
> >>>
> >>>I realised I don't need it anyway, as I am partitioning/formatting, so
> those
> >>>
> >>>
> >>are
> >>
> >>
> >>>only needed in the image to be installed......
> >>>
> >>>Whilst talking about the hdinstall package tho....
> >>>
> >>>Is there any way to have a text-only package? I tried to mimic ssh (the
> only
> >>>text based app I could think of), but it still seems to try to try to
> start
> >>>
> >>>
> >>an
> >>
> >>
> >>>x session (I just want a console). Should I create a
> >>>packages/hdisntall/etc/cmd/hdinstall.console file?
> >>>What should be in the needs= param of the
> >>>
> >>>
> >>packages/hdinstall/lib/menu/hdinstall
> >>
> >>
> >>>file?
> >>>
> >>>I was hacking the cinch scripts to work under TS as a package, but I might
> >>>revert to using cinch 'as-it-comes' with the TS kernel/modules/etc.
> >>>
> >>>Trevor B
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> >