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---+ Just a log of one user's experience trying to follow the instructions

I found it helpful to ssh to diydice and grep through various existing profiles

That's what made me realise I needed to change all the occurrences of 'cc' in the recommended starting point to 'ht' (my own username).

I'm _guessing_ that the inv.sno is what's given on the label of my machine as "Barcode"

No idea how to find the allowed formatting for the inv.location field

If you have a high-res display, add the following line:
<verbatim>
!xfree.displaymodes_main mSET("1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600")
</verbatim>
Once I got my profile to compile (it's at /diyhome/ht/lcfg/source/ignatius if you're interested), the next hitch was that the boot options menu was not as described in step 7 of the instructions, rather it gave me _five_ options, fc3 and fc5, and defaulted to fc5 while I was still reading!

That was OK, since I wanted FC5

Next pblm: couldn't find my profile.  Some detective work established that the correct answer is

  http://diydice.inf.ed.ac.uk/profiles/diy.inf.ed.ac.uk/ignatius/XML/profile.xml

obviously your machine name goes where 'ignatius' is above.

Next pblm:
<verbatim>
LCFG fstab: /root/var/cache/afs already exists and populated
LCFG install: install method failed
</verbatim>

and I got dropped into a shell.  After looking around a bit, I simply exitted, which rebooted, and this time I got in quickly enough to type 'fc5' at the boot menu prompt.

Note always have to F12 on reboot during all this, to get to option 2 -- default/option 1 leads to Grub failure, whatever that is

That worked better -- looked like the installation rebuilt the disks from scratch, and started the mega-RPM fetch

2821/2821 rpms updated/installed, but "LCFG updaterpms: rpmtsRun failed" and out to shell

Commented out the #define FIRST_INSTALL in hopes that would keep the disks from being scrubbed

That didn't work :-(, disks rebuilt, rpms installing. . .

OK, this time I saw some of the errors, e.g.
<verbatim>
%pre(dice-submit-2.65.5-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
(code 7210499)
failed to open logfile : /var/lcfg/log/upd[*ERR*]
</verbatim>
Now hung on rpm number 2211, after 1 hour 10 minutes, with =pidof[19901]: stat failed for /proc/19901/root!= displayed higher up the screen. . . This actually happened once before, eventually gave up that time and rebooted, which of course then took another 90 minutes . . . :-(

OK, but this time, after about a 20 minute hang, it picked up again and carried on -- go figure.

10 minutes later, now up to 2478, a very small 'beep', maybe, and it's hung again -- no, wait, after 5 minutes it's off again, slowly. . .

installrpms error as above

Tried the hack below to keep rpms from being trashed, that worked, got to login OK!

---++ Outstanding questions
   * When is it right to comment out the #define FIRST_INSTALL?
      * After the first complete successful install. . .
   * How do I prevent the disks from getting scrubbed, if things fail part-way through the rpms, or even at the end?
      * Not recommended, but try
<verbatim>
!fstab.preserve_hda1            mSET(yes)
!install.imethod_mkdir_dev mSET("%oneshot% mkdir -p /root/dev") 
!install.imethod_mkdir_etc mSET("%oneshot% mkdir -p /root/etc")
</verbatim>


-- Main.ht - 01 Feb 2007

Topic revision: r2 - 02 Feb 2007 - 09:53:58 - HenrySThompson

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