[RULE] Re: Install Report (slinky 3.95 with Red Hat variant)

[Raymundo Q. Baquirin]

> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:25:27 -0400
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> On Friday 27 June 2003 06:28 am, Raymundo Q. Baquirin wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > I tried to use slinky to install a local distribution (Lorma Linux
> > http://linux.lorma.edu/
> > , based on Red Hat 9).  Here's what happened:
> >
> > 1.  I tried to install using the Lorma LInux installer (Anaconda, don't
> > know if it's stock Red Hat or modified).  The installer crashed after
> > the Disk Druid stage where I had defined a mount point for / and for
> > /boot.
>
> Unless this distro is a duplicate of Red Hat, this will fail. Package
> name-version, and disk location must match Red Hat exactly. Red hat 9
> requires 2 disks for the install, so the installer will fail if this is a
> single disk distribution you are installing. You'll need to edit the
> package lists to reflect this, if all the packages are on one disk.
>
I had a look at the rpms on the iso, and indeed glibc-common and glibc (at 
least) have different version numbers.  I'll try to edit the package names 
and retry the install.

> > 6. Switched to a second terminal, where I created a directory /mnt/win
> > and mounted /dev/hda1 on it:
> >     mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
> >
> > 7. Loop-mounted the Lorma Linux iso:
> >      mount -t iso9660 /mnt/win/lorma/lorma_v.3.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop
> >
> > 8. Loop-mounted disk2.img:
> >     mount -t ext2 /mnt/win/rule/slinky/3.95/disk2.img /mnt/floppy -o
> > loop
>
> Don't mount anything. The installer will mount everything as it is needed.
I retried the install without a slinky.config and without mounting anything.  
Selected image install from hda1 with "lorma/lorma_v.3.iso" as the path to 
the iso file.  Got an error:
  ext2 file system not found on /dev/hda1
(or similar, typing this the morning after).  Cancelled the install, then 
edited setup.sh, replacing the line
  mount /dev/${image_part} /mnt/loop || {
with
   mount -t vfat /dev/${image_part} /mnt/loop || {
(since the iso is on my windows partition).

Tried the install again. This time, got the success message
  "Located the RedHat/RPMS/ directory! success."

However, in the end I still got a lot of messages
  "/root/scripts/base_install.sh: [ No such file or directory"
I'll see what happens after I've edited the package lists.
>
> > 9.  Switched back to terminal 1 and run install.sh.
> >
> > 10.  Got error messages:
> >     Trying to mount /dev//dev/hda1
> >     mount: Mounting /dev//dev/hda1 failed: No such file or directory
> >     Failed to mount /dev//dev/hda1
> >     mount: ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Bad file descriptor
> >     mount: could not setup loop device
> >     Failed to mount /dev//dev/hda1//lorma/lorma_v.3.iso
> >     umount: /mnt/loop: Invalid argument
> >     Located the RedHat/RPMS/ directory! success.
> >     unmounting /dev//dev/hda1//lorma/lorma_v.3.iso
>
> You've manually mounted things the installer is trying to mount. It fails
> because they are already mounted. I'm not sure why you ended up with
> /dev//dev/hda1. Can you try this without the slinky.config file? I'm not
> sure I've ever tested an ISO install using the config file. This portion
> of the install is a test mount. It verifies that the file can be mounted,
> and contains the expected directory structure. It is then unmounted until
> it is needed again.
>
> > 11. The installation proceeds, but then stops and says the image can't
> > be found and to switch to another terminal and manually mount it
> > (sorry, I failed to write the exact message).  I switch to terminal 2.
> > mount shows that the hda1 partition is no longer mounted, and in fact
> > the directory I created, /mnt/win is no longer there.  Again I create
> > /mnt/win, mount hda1 on that and loop-mount the lorma iso on /mnt/cdrom
>
> No packages were installed according to the log. I'd suggest trying
> without a config file, and without mounting anything in advance. When
> prompted for the partition containing the images, just answer hda1
> (rather than /dev/hda1), then provide the path to the image file, and the
> name of the file when prompted. The installer should handle the rest.
>
> Good luck.Hope that helps,
> - --
> - -Michael

That helped ENORMOUSLY.  Thanks!

Ray