Re: [Rule-list] Modifying the current anaconda--progress update

[Joao M.T. Coelho]

Folks, this may have nothing to do with your project, but i have been running
into problems installing RH7 at work. Whena anaconda starts , i am not at work
and cannot give you the error messages, but it stops installing.  Any ideas ?
Thanks.

Chuck Moss wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:16:24PM -0800, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> > > Now, the problem remains as to how to implement this.  I just
> > > tried using a
> > > floppy with the new anaconda, and using the original discs,
> > > but it looks
> > > like the stage2.img on the original disc is the culprit.  I
> > > have been using
> > > totally rebuilt discs.  Thus, it looks like we have to
> > > somehow change the
> > > stage2.img, or rebuild the disc(s).  Any ideas on this subject?
> >
> > I think that I figured it out.  It looks like loader.c will check
> > /tmp/updates/anaconda for updates.  If you pass the `updates` flag at boot,
> > it will copy everything from the updates floppy to /tmp/updates.  So, I
> > copied anaconda (from the source) to my updates floppy (a ext2 formatted
> > floppy), and changed line 323 from:
> >
> > if iutil.memInstalled() < isys.MIN_RAM:
> >
> > to:
> >
> > if iutil.memInstalled() < 6000:
> >
> > I had to boot from a fixed floppy boot.img, and typed `linux updates
> > mem=16M'.  It then asked for an updates disk, and used the fixed anaconda,
> > and then started the install.
>
> If I am following this correctly, Great news.
> I'll try to get some time over the weekend to dig into some of this myself.
>
> Chuck
>
> >
> > So, our users can download a fixed boot.img, and an updates disk, and still
> > use the regular Red Hat 7.2 discs!
> >
> > I wonder if we can pass a different comps file...
> >
> > Forrest
> >
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