Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/X

2000-01-27 Thread Hugo Rabson 

It appears that Air's installer (or, more likely, one of the 3rd-party tools
on which it relies) cannot format DOS partitions. If auto_inst.cfg.pl is
modified as you suggest (clearall = 1, auto_allocate = 1) and no DOS
partitions are included in the partitioning() array, kickstart formats the
partitions, installs the files and completes 99% of the installation. :-))

It gets as far as configuring X, where it fails. The X section of my
auto_inst.cfg.pl file looks like this:-
...
'X' = {
'card' = {
'default_depth' = 16,
'resolution_wanted' = '1024x768'
  }
  },
...

Kickstart says:-
"Entering step 'Install system'
Entering step 'Configure networking'
Entering step 'Cryptographic'
Entering step 'Configure timezone'
Entering step 'Configure printer'
Entering step 'Set root password'
Entering step 'Add a user'
Entering step 'Create bootdisk' -- disabled ('mkbootdisk' = '0')
Entering step 'Install bootloader'
Entering step 'Configure X'
error :("

Console #3 says:-
* unknown line 1538 (2-the-Max MaxColor 6000)
* unknown line 1541 (Gainward Challenger EV)
* unknown line 1544 (MachSpeed VGA ET6000)
* unknown line 1547 (KouTech KeyVision 128EV)
* warning: undefined subroutine main:: called at line
/usr/bin/perl-install/Xconfigurator.pm at line 824.
* warning: undefined subroutine main:: called at line
/usr/bin/perl-install/Xconfigurator.pm at line 824.
   ...propagated at /usr/bin/perl-install/Xconfigurator.pm line 825.

(I'm using a card recognised and configured as a V2x00 Rendition Verité. It
works well under Linux and is detected correctly by Air's interactive
installer.)

Can I tell kickstart to configure Air for a specific graphics card (no
autodetection, no testing)? Alternatively, is it possible to instruct
kickstart to detect the card but not test it?

Hugo

- Original Message -
From: Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/locale


 "Hugo Rabson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  I modified the auto_inst.cfg.pl file (created by interactive
installation)
  as follows:-
[...]
 oups. add auto_allocate = 1 (the doc is a bit buggy on this point)

Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/X

2000-01-27 Thread Pixel 

"Hugo Rabson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 It appears that Air's installer (or, more likely, one of the 3rd-party tools
 on which it relies) cannot format DOS partitions

i'll test to see where the pb is.

 /usr/bin/perl-install/Xconfigurator.pm at line 824.
 * warning: undefined subroutine main:: called at line
 /usr/bin/perl-install/Xconfigurator.pm at line 824.
...propagated at /usr/bin/perl-install/Xconfigurator.pm line 825.

i must have broken something :(

i'll test to see what is the problem.

Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/X

2000-01-27 Thread Pixel 

Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 "Hugo Rabson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  It appears that Air's installer (or, more likely, one of the 3rd-party tools
  on which it relies) cannot format DOS partitions
 
 i'll test to see where the pb is.
 
  /usr/bin/perl-install/Xconfigurator.pm at line 824.
  * warning: undefined subroutine main:: called at line
  /usr/bin/perl-install/Xconfigurator.pm at line 824.
 ...propagated at /usr/bin/perl-install/Xconfigurator.pm line 825.
 
 i must have broken something :(
 
 i'll test to see what is the problem.

i've just tested with success :)

i didn't put any

'card' = {
'default_depth' = 16,
'resolution_wanted' = '1024x768'
  }

though, going to retest with it.

 'partitioning' = {
 'clearall' = '0',
 'autoformat' = '0',
 'eraseBadPartitions' = '0',
 'auto_allocate' = '0'
   },
 
 you need to use clearall = 1 if you don't have enough room for creating the
 new directories.
 
 for the moment, you can't use already created partitions, though it should quite
 easy to add that

silly me, you already can using manualFstab :

'manualFstab' = [
   {
 'device' = '192.168.1.9:/export',
 'mntpoint' = '/mnt/nfs',
 'type' = 'nfs',
 'options' = 'noauto,ro,nosuid,rsize=8192,wsize=8192'
   }
 ],

which should work nicely with devices : 

'manualFstab' = [
   {
 'device' = '/dev/hda1',
 'mntpoint' = '/usr',
 'type' = 'ext2,
 'options' = 'default'
   }
 ],

Re: [Cooker] LM7 (Air) kickstart problems w/X

2000-01-27 Thread Pixel 

Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  you need to use clearall = 1 if you don't have enough room for creating the
  new directories.
  
  for the moment, you can't use already created partitions, though it should quite
  easy to add that
 
 silly me, you already can using manualFstab :
 
 'manualFstab' = [
{
  'device' = '192.168.1.9:/export',
  'mntpoint' = '/mnt/nfs',
  'type' = 'nfs',
  'options' = 'noauto,ro,nosuid,rsize=8192,wsize=8192'
}
  ],
 
 which should work nicely with devices : 
 
 'manualFstab' = [
{
  'device' = '/dev/hda1',
  'mntpoint' = '/usr',
  'type' = 'ext2,
  'options' = 'default'
}
  ],

silly me (bis)
this can't be used for install, it's just put in /etc/fstab...