Can you send us the output of just running "mount" at this point?



On 8/11/10 3:08 AM, Guy Neale wrote:
> I've created a VM and booted from an ISO image.  /oldroot is mounted to 
> /dev/root but I found no /dev/root or /dev/cdrom device. The /oldroot 
> directory is empty
>
> This is the output if I run astinstall from the console. not to sure where to 
> go from here.
>
> Installing to /dev/hda...
> tar: can't open '/oldroot/cdrom/runnix-*.tar.gz': No such file or directory
> cat: can't open '/tmp/runnix-*/mbr.bin': No such file or directory
> /usr/sbin/astinstall: line 119: syslinux: command not found
> cp: cannot stat '/tmp/runnix-*/rootfs_vfat/*': No such file or directory
> cp: cannot stat '/oldroot/cdrom/os/root.squashfs': No such file or directory
> cp: cannot stat '/oldroot/cdrom/os/astlinux-0.7.2.run.conf': No such file or 
> directory
> cp: cannot stat '/oldroot/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img': No such file or 
> directory
> /usr/sbin/astinstall: line 134: cd: /tmp/runnix/os: No such file or directory
> sha1sum: can't open 'astlinux-0.7.2.run': No such file or directory
> touch: /tmp/runnix/os/astflag: No such file or directory
>
>
> On 10/08/2010, at 1:01 PM, Darrick Hartman wrote:
>
>> Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>>   On 8/9/10 3:15 PM, John Novack wrote:
>>>> Any plans to fix the install script on the ISO? A couple of folks I was
>>>> trying to interest in AstLinux report that install from the ISO is broken.
>>>>
>>>> Also, one wag installed AstLinux to an 80 Gig Hard drive, and after a
>>>> couple of attempts discovered that the timer built into the setup web
>>>> page wasn't long enough for an 80 gig drive to finish formatting!
>>>>
>>>> Don't ask me why he wanted to install on an 80 Gig drive!
>>>>
>>>> John Novack
>>>>
>>> Actually, it seems to be a fairly trivial fix...  I'm guessing it's a one 
>>> liner.
>>>
>>> I just don't have the time nor the VM set up to quickly do 
>>> testing/debugging.
>>>
>>> Someone previously pointed out that it was looking for the image at a 
>>> particular mount point, but said that wasn't present... which was mildly 
>>> helpful.
>>>
>>> What would have been even more helpful would have been telling us what was 
>>> mounted, and where, at that exact moment.
>>>
>>> It could just be that everything needed is present... just not in the right 
>>> places... and a simple one line path change needs to happen.
>> It's more than one line, but not too much more than that.
>>
>> It's a matter of reading through the bat files on the iso.  There really
>> could be one iso with all of the install images on it.  That would
>> definitely be a few more lines.
>>
>> It's on the list, but not at the top of the list.  If someone wanted to
>> make an attempt at this, we'd accept that work.
>>
>> Darrick


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