Hi all, I just rolled up a new 5107R ISO image:
http://devel.blueonyx.it/pub/BlueOnyx/ISO/BlueOnyx-5107R-SL-6.1-20110811.iso I'd need some testers for it to check for the following: - Does it install on boxes with disks > 1TB? - Does it still give the "new lv is too large" error message when setting up partitions? I hope it does not, because I think I found the source of both issues: Among the updates that are part of SL-6.1 was a new Anaconda, which is used as installer on the CD's. There are plenty of interesting fixes in this Anaconda, such as listed in the RHEL errata on this page: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0530.html 654360 - anaconda fails to find disks greater than 1TB 677915 - DeviceError: ('new lv is too large to fit in free space', 'sysvg1') 654436 - anaconda list-harddrives command behaviour has changed in RHEL6 702430 - Regression: list-harddrives output not always processable by part command These four known bugs caused some grief with previous CD releases and hopefully that all should be fixed by now. I also implemented several new work arounds in our kickstart files to mitigate remaining problems. Something else was changed and I'm not entirely happy with it yet: Previously the 1st stage installer tried to fetch the network settings from a DHCP server. Which is fine as long as there is a DHCP server in your network. If it isn't, a long timeout happened before the install continued. Which is undesireable. If I try to hard code some bogus network settings, then the newer Anaconda complains that the network is unreachable and propmpts with a dialogue that allows you to configure the network settings. The same happens if I don't configure network settings in our kickstart scripts: That "configure network" dialogue pops up. So I left it at that. Which means: During the install you will be prompted twice for your network settings: 1.) After the disks have been partitioned 2.) By the initial setup installer after the first reboot and during the 1st login. Ultimately I will probably remove the second poll for the network settings, but for now it has to remain. -- With best regards Michael Stauber _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx