Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Instalinux

[Bryan G. <Bry...@HP...>]

Carl,

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:08:03PM +0000, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Bryan Gartner <Bry...@hp...> wrote:
> I have tried both with and without setting up a profile.

Hmm, okay.

> >  Ah, ok, so am I correct in assuming that you have setup a profile
> >  and are trying to create a boot image?  If so, it appears as though
> >  your disk partitioning information is not of the correct format
> >  (although the provided example is far from being useful).
> >
> >  So can you try one of the following options:
> >
> >   1) do not use a profile, but rather try thhe "custom" option on step #2,
> >      then you will get a step #4a, where you will select a scsi disk
> >      like sda
> 
> It's hard to tell for sure but I think that today I am getting to
> places in the interactive GUI stuff where I have never been before.

Yes, if you don't use a profile, you get all those same kinds of
prompts in the bootimage process flow.  Pay up front or pay now
approach ;)

> >   2) follow the thread in
> >
> >         http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1804636&group_id=144250&atid=758200
> >
> >      to modify your profile's disk partitioning section
> 
> Today I do:
> 
> Step 2 Custom
> Step 3 select "network waystation"  shouldn't this really be called
> "software repository"?

We long ago adopted the network waystation terminology for all our
internal deployments (for many projects), so that was our historical
term.  We also support local media installs, BTW.

> Step 4 select ubuntu-desktop
>            select partitioning method "multi-user workstation"
> Step 4a select IDE0.0 because my Qemu emulator does IDE drives.

ditto here

> Wait for results -- the web site is slow enough today for me to
> compose the above several lines in another window.

Understood.  And if the site owner was in our chat session, I'd
ping him to see what's up.  BTW, feel free to join IRC at:

	irc://irc.freenode.net/#linuxcoe

as noted on our project home page.

> OK, have downloaded the .ISO image, checked its MD5 sum, and started
> up Qemu with that CD image and a blank 8GB hard drive image.  It is
> past the initial stumble on preseed.cfg and is now going through what
> looks like a text-mode Ubuntu/Debian install.

That sounds normal then.

> But I don't really know what is really different between this and
> several other things I tried yesterday and the day before.

Heh!

> Will have to try to create some controlled failures, following this
> single success.

FWIW, disk partitioning with preseed is not for the faint of heart
and is the single biggest achilles heel in the process, imho.

> By the way, do you recycle the 4-digit isoxxxx.iso file names?

Yes, those are just process IDs, and your images get autocleaned
on a time based schedule.

> My next round of questions may very well be about setting up my own
> local repository so that I could use this for Linux InstallFests but
> run at local network and disk speeds rather than using the remote
> network.  But first I will browse among the SourceForge discussions.

Excellent, I often do that as well for demos (even just using my
laptop for smaller groups).  I am also schedule to do just such
an InstallFest for Hardy when it releases.  Feel free to ask
whatever questions you may have, and I'll try to help,

bryang