Re: [Rule-list] And now for a special announcement...(Nailed it!)

[Chuck Moss]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:42:13AM -0500, Devon wrote:
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> Good news!
> I found the problem that was causing the installer to die when trying to 
> do a 3 disk install. I've just finished installing a minimal system from 
> the new installer. 
> 
> The install starts from our modified install disk, using the trimmed down 
> comps and *img files. It then asks for the stock Red Hat Linux 7.2 disks 
> to actually install the RPMs. (This has the added bonus of allowing us to 
> include updated packages with the installer, if need be.)
> 
> Anyway, 3 days and about 25 CD's later, we have a working installer. The 
> new iso image is 95MB, which is a significant reduction. I'll see what I 
> can do to reduce it now that it actually  works.
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> I'll upload the new image and the diffs against anaconda tonight. Please 
> wait a few hours before trying to download it, or it is likely you will 
> get only a partial file.
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> Please download and test this if you can. 
> 
> Note that if you do a bare minimal install, you will want to select 
> choose individual packages, and add net-tools to the list of files to be 
> installed. I left it out of the base section of the comps file and the 
> machine won't be able to set it's hostname. It's already fixed locally, 
> but I don't have time tonight to generate a new image and upload it.
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> The iso will be at 
> http://webpages.charter.net/lmf62/RULE_installer-v0.6.2.iso
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> Patches will be at my own server:
> http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/

Devon,

great work, I'll download tomorrow and test on some of my old systems.
I will have some detailed questions later after I get a chance to look at
it.


Chuck