[Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/locale
I'm following the kickstart guide on the Mandrake web page, trying to create a kickstart boot disk for Linux Mandrake 7.0 (Air). The boot disk boots the CDROM but the locale (lang = 'en') line in auto_inst.cfg.pl always leads to fatal errors:- perl: warning: Setting locale failed perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:- LANGUAGE = "" LC_ALL = "en" LANG = "" are supported and installed on the system. It then quits, telling me I can either reboot or press CTRL-ALT-F2 to get to a shell. The locale is the one I chose when carrying out the interactive installation that created the auto_inst.cfg.pl file in the first place. I've tried 'en', 'en_US' and even 'fr_FR' (which seems to get a bit further). Any ideas? :-) TIA, Hugo Rabson
Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/locale
Kaixo! On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 08:39:40AM -0600, Hugo Rabson wrote: I'm following the kickstart guide on the Mandrake web page, trying to create a kickstart boot disk for Linux Mandrake 7.0 (Air). The boot disk boots the CDROM but the locale (lang = 'en') line in auto_inst.cfg.pl always leads to fatal errors:- perl: warning: Setting locale failed perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:- LANGUAGE = "" LC_ALL = "en" LANG = "" are supported and installed on the system. perl is indeed very pedantic about locales setting; with all three above set to "en" it should work. OTOH the isntall maybe shouldn't abort on a perl warning; at least not on that perl warning. The locale is the one I chose when carrying out the interactive installation that created the auto_inst.cfg.pl file in the first place. I've tried 'en', 'en_US' and even 'fr_FR' (which seems to get a bit further). Any ideas? :-) I don't know where auto_inst.cfg.pl can be found; so I can't help you more right now; but the needed modification would be to set also the LANG and LANGUAGE variables (with them defautling to the value of 'lang' if not set) Hugo Rabson -- Ki ça vos våye bén, Pablo Saratxaga http://www.ping.be/~pin19314/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975
Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/locale
"Hugo Rabson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm following the kickstart guide on the Mandrake web page, trying to create a kickstart boot disk for Linux Mandrake 7.0 (Air). The boot disk boots the CDROM but the locale (lang = 'en') line in auto_inst.cfg.pl always leads to fatal errors:- perl: warning: Setting locale failed perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:- LANGUAGE = "" LC_ALL = "en" LANG = "" are supported and installed on the system. one thing for sure, is that it is *not* this that makes it quit. It then quits, telling me I can either reboot or press CTRL-ALT-F2 to get to a shell. mail me your auto_inst.cfg, i'll have a look.
Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/locale
Hi,
I don't know where auto_inst.cfg.pl can be found; so I can't help you more
right now; but the needed modification would be to set also the LANG and
LANGUAGE variables (with them defautling to the value of 'lang' if not set)
root/auto_inst.cfg.pl is created by LM7's installation suite.
See http://www.linux-mandrake.com/drakx/auto_inst.html for the HOWTO.
Kickstart is IMO a wonderful idea. Norton Ghost lets me create a bootable CD
which installs Windows 98 while I'm doing something else; kickstart would
let me do the same thing for Linux. My boss would love that.
OTOH the isntall maybe shouldn't abort on a perl warning;
at least not on that perl warning.
You're right. :-) I checked the kickstart didn't abort until later. It
looks as if there are two problems - one relating to the locale and one
relating to the filesystem.
The following will create a kickstart installation boot diskette based on a
Linux system interactively installed recently:-
Login as root.
# umount /mnt/floppy
# cd /mnt/cdrom/images
# dd if=cdrom.img of=/dev/fd0H1440
# mount /mnt/floppy
# cp /root/auto_inst.cfg.pl /mnt/floppy
# emacs /mnt/floppy/syslinux.cfg
Change the 'timeout' value to under 20
Change the 'default' value to 'ks' (no quotation marks)
Save; exit emacs.
Then CTRL-ALT-DEL and reboot with the floppy and CDROM inserted. (Make sure
the BIOS will boot from floppy, not CDROM.)
Here is what happens:-
#---
Loading cdrom.rdz
Loading vmlinuz
[kernel stuff]
Initializing CDROM...
in second stage install...
Entering step 'Choose install or upgrade'
Entering step 'Choose mouse'
Entering step 'Choose your keyboard'
perl: warning: Setting local failed.
perl: warning: Please ensure that your local settings:-
'lang' = 'en'
'lc_all' = 'en'
'language' = 'en'
perl: warning: are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard local ("C").
[ the above 'perl warning' section is written three times in total]
Entering step 'Miscellaneous'
Entering step 'Setup filesystems'
error :(
switch to console f2 for a shell
press return to reboot
#---
I've tried setting 'lang', 'language' and 'lc_all' to various values but the
warning still appear, even with the values put into the .cfg file but the
Mandrake installation suite itself.
Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/locale
"Hugo Rabson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Entering step 'Miscellaneous' Entering step 'Setup filesystems' error :( you should find interesting stuff in console 3
Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/locale
- Original Message - From: Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/locale "Hugo Rabson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Entering step 'Miscellaneous' Entering step 'Setup filesystems' error :( you should find interesting stuff in console 3
Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/locale
CTRL-ALT-F3 tells me:-
Starting step 'Miscellaneous'
..
Starting step 'PartitionDisks'
No SCSI devices available
Warning: you must have a root partition.
For this, create a partition (or click on an existing one).
Then choose action 'mount point' and set it to '/'
...at /usr/bin/perl-install/install2.pm at line 310
I modified the auto_inst.cfg.pl file (created by interactive installation)
as follows:-
'partitioning' = {
'clearall' = '1',
'autoformat' = '0',
'eraseBadPartitions' = '0',
'auto_allocate' = '0'
},
(I also tried autoformat=1)
Any ideas? :)
Hugo
P.S. Sorry about the 'empty' email. Outlook Express has some keyboard
shortcuts I didn't know about.
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From: Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/locale
"Hugo Rabson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Entering step 'Miscellaneous'
Entering step 'Setup filesystems'
error :(
you should find interesting stuff in console 3
Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/locale
"Hugo Rabson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CTRL-ALT-F3 tells me:-
Starting step 'Miscellaneous'
..
Starting step 'PartitionDisks'
No SCSI devices available
Warning: you must have a root partition.
For this, create a partition (or click on an existing one).
Then choose action 'mount point' and set it to '/'
...at /usr/bin/perl-install/install2.pm at line 310
I modified the auto_inst.cfg.pl file (created by interactive installation)
as follows:-
'partitioning' = {
'clearall' = '1',
'autoformat' = '0',
'eraseBadPartitions' = '0',
'auto_allocate' = '0'
},
(I also tried autoformat=1)
Any ideas? :)
oups. add auto_allocate = 1 (the doc is a bit buggy on this point)
