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