Re: [Cooker] CD split script
"Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Guillaume! I love you! Thank you It finally worked! I'm in the process of installing cooker right now. After having to repeatedly reinstall linux and re-mirror cooker over the last couple of weeks, if my computer blew up right now I'd still be happy! Kool!! -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] CD split script
Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Warly wrote: Here is a perl script that create isos from a cooker repository. You can modify it to fit your needs, its syntax is trivial. Those 135 lines may seem trivial to you because you wrote them. Actually trying to explain what it does requires a good knowledge of Mandrake's packaging system and/or PERL. (-: No I was talking about the rpmslist file, not the script. I wanted to say that you can create your own CDs with your own packages lists. -- Warly
RE: [Cooker] CD split script
About not finding the directory on the partition, I just implemented an additional feature that lists an extract of the partitions when the program fails to find the directory and/or Linux-Mandrake Distribution on your disks. If you want to try it quicker that the mirrors you can find it here: http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/hd.img -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/ Guillaume! I love you! Thank you It finally worked! I'm in the process of installing cooker right now. After having to repeatedly reinstall linux and re-mirror cooker over the last couple of weeks, if my computer blew up right now I'd still be happy! Mike :-D
Re: [Cooker] CD split script
On 2001.01.09 Ron Stodden wrote: "J . A . Magallon" wrote: Please, where can I found the mkcd.sh script that some people talked about ? I NEED to burn cooker on CDs to be able to recover the system. Pray, why? If you have the cooker download all ready to make CDs from, why? You want to know everything. Well, here's the full story. I have plenty of disk space at work, and a fast connection (a University engineering school). So I have cooker at work. At home I have no room to store the full distro on disk. So I would like to burn the CDs and take them home. Just install Cooker into another partition using a floppy made from the /images/hd.img from your Cooker download partition. Read the instructions in the download. Last time I installed a buggy rpm for glibc, the boot disks or CDs of 7.2 worth noting over a system running glibc22 and rpm4. Regretfully not comprehensible English. Sorry, I sould better talk like indians: - rpm -U glibc-xxx - no boot - boot with mdk 7.2 CD - /CD/bin/rpm --root /my/disk -U --force old-glibc-: error: no rpm version 3 database, glibc is rpm v4 and so on... - /my/disk/bin/rpm .: glibc22 binary, does not work with glibc on boot CD. -- J.A. Magallon $ cd pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ more beer Linux werewolf 2.4.0-ac4 #1 SMP Mon Jan 8 22:10:06 CET 2001 i686
RE: [Cooker] CD split script
"J . A . Magallon" wrote: Please, where can I found the mkcd.sh script that some people talked about ? I NEED to burn cooker on CDs to be able to recover the system. Pray, why? If you have the cooker download all ready to make CDs from, why? Just install Cooker into another partition using a floppy made from the /images/hd.img from your Cooker download partition. Read the instructions in the download. Last time I installed a buggy rpm for glibc, the boot disks or CDs of 7.2 worth noting over a system running glibc22 and rpm4. Regretfully not comprehensible English. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] Have you been successful at this in the last few days? I just finished wiping out my existing partitions AGAIN trying to install from the hd.img. It gets to the point where it's asking where to install to and then the directory where to get the install files from and then can't find the files - returns 'no such directory on this partition'. Then when trying again, it says 'error - no supported filesystem found' or something to that effect and when I try to boot back into my existing linux partition, it can't read the disk partition anymore. I'm perplexed! How in the world are you supposed to install this thing I reinstall linux 7.2, mirror cooker, then try to do hd.img and it wipes everything out. I've tried making one big ISO and installing using the hd.img from that - no luck; I've tried splitting cooker using the script from MDK website and I end up with an install CD that can't initialize my cdrom (???) and a second ISO image that's about 766MB (to big to burn onto a disk). If someone already has a couple of working cooker ISO's on their website, I would very much appreciate being able to download those ~ forget being able to debug the current cooker, I can't even get passed the install script! PLEASE - would someone make some ISO's available? Thanks in advance, Mike
Re: [Cooker] CD split script (new rpmslist format)
"Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: that's about 766MB (to big to burn onto a disk). If someone already has a couple of working cooker ISO's on their website, I would very much appreciate being able to download those ~ forget being able to debug the current cooker, I can't even get passed the install script! PLEASE - would someone make some ISO's available? Some cooker isos must be available before the end of this month, and I am working on redoing a new script to ease the iso making. Moreover a new splitting file has been put on the the mirror. rpmslist now has the following format : CD num=1 packages 1 packages 2 ... packages n /CD CD num=2 packages 1 pacakges 2 ... packages m /CD ... CD num=p packages 1 pacakges 2 ... packages o /CD -- Warly
Re: [Cooker] CD split script
"Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Have you been successful at this in the last few days? I just finished wiping out my existing partitions AGAIN trying to install from the hd.img. It gets to the point where it's asking where to install to and then the directory where to get the install files from and then can't find the files - returns 'no such directory on this partition'. Then when trying again, it says 'error - no supported filesystem found' or something to that effect and when I try to boot back into my existing linux partition, it can't read the disk partition anymore. I'm perplexed! How in the world are you supposed to install this thing I reinstall linux 7.2, mirror If you're stuck in the first stage where you have to tell where to install from (yes the messages were a bit unclear, it's fixed now), it's HIGHLY unprobably that I could eat your partition table! About not finding the directory on the partition, I just implemented an additional feature that lists an extract of the partitions when the program fails to find the directory and/or Linux-Mandrake Distribution on your disks. If you want to try it quicker that the mirrors you can find it here: http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/hd.img cooker, then try to do hd.img and it wipes everything out. I've tried making one big ISO and installing using the hd.img from that - no luck; I've tried splitting cooker using the script from MDK website and I end up with an install CD that can't initialize my cdrom (???) and a second ISO image You've put "cdrom.img" in the boot record? What does it say? that's about 766MB (to big to burn onto a disk). If someone already has a couple of working cooker ISO's on their website, I would very much appreciate being able to download those ~ forget being able to debug the current cooker, I can't even get passed the install script! PLEASE - would someone make some ISO's available? There is an official cooker snapshot planned for january, 24. :-).. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] CD split script
Here is a perl script that create isos from a cooker repository.
It does not create live images of isos, so you only needs space for
the isos themselves.
If you are not root and that someone is also building isos on your system,
the /tmp/.build_hdlist may be locked, so you should set the TMPDIR environment
variable to an appropriate location. In this directory dependency files
are created, you'll need about 10 MB to build them.
Script usage:
perl mkcd.pl repository dir iso creation dir
repository dir is the top of your mirror (I ll may add ftp or http
access to remotely build isos, but later)
iso creation dir is where you want your isos to be built
This script is based on the rpmslist file in Mandrake/base, so be sure that
it is present. You can modify it to fit your needs, its syntax is trivial.
The script (it is available through cvs in cooker/soft/mkcd):
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my ($rep,$iso) = @ARGV;
$iso or usage();
my @cd;
open A, "$rep/Mandrake/base/rpmslist";
my ($num,@a);
my %list;
while(A){
/\/CD/ and $num = 0;
/CD num=(\d+)/ and do { $num = $1; push @cd, $num};
s/\+/\\\+/g;
/(?:.*)*([^]*)\n/;
$1 and do {
@a = split ' ', $1;
@list{@a} = map $num,@a
}
}
my $depslist = "$rep/Mandrake/base/depslist.ordered";
my $hdlist = "$rep/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz2";
my $dir = "$rep/Mandrake/RPMS";
$ENV{PATH} = "$ENV{PATH}:$rep/misc";
my $tmpdir = $ENV{TMPDIR} || "/tmp";
my $work_dir = "$tmpdir/.build_hdlist";
-e $work_dir !-d $work_dir and unlink($work_dir) || die "cannot use $work_dir as a
working directory";
chmod 0755, $work_dir or system("rm -rf $work_dir");
-d $work_dir or mkdir $work_dir, 0755 or die "cannot create working directory
$work_dir\n";
chdir $work_dir;
# build the hdlists
my (@list, %keys, @keys);
opendir DIR, $dir or die "unable to opendir $dir: $!\n";
while ($_ = readdir DIR) {
my ($key, $arch) = /(.*)\.(.*)\.rpm$/ or next;
system("rpm2header $dir/$_ $_") unless -e $_;
$? == 0 or unlink($_), die "bad rpm $dir/$_\n";
-s $_ or unlink($_), die "bad rpm $dir/$_\n";
my ($name, $tail) = $key =~ /(.*)(-[^-]*-[^-]*)/;
my $n = $list{$name};
push @{$list[$n]}, $_;
if ($keys{$n}{$key}) {
$keys{$n}{"$name($keys{$key})$tail"} = $keys{$n}{$key}; unlink
"$name($keys{$n}{$key})$tail"; link "$key.$keys{$n}{$key}.rpm",
"$name($keys{$n}{$key})$tail";
$keys{$n}{"$name($arch)$tail"} = $arch; unlink "$name($arch)$tail"; link $_,
"$name($arch)$tail";
delete $keys{$n}{$key};
} else {
$keys{$n}{$key} = $arch; unlink $key; link $_, $key;
}
}
my @dkeys;
if (-e "$rep/Mandrake/base/depslist.ordered") {
open F, $depslist;
@dkeys = map { (split)[0] } F;
}
open C, "$work_dir/hdlists";
my $cmddep = "genbasefiles $work_dir/";
foreach my $n (@cd){
my @keys = grep { delete $keys{$n}{$_} } @dkeys;
open B, "| packdrake -b9s $work_dir/hdlist$n.cz 40";
foreach (@keys, keys %{$keys{$n}}) { print B "$_\n" }
close B or die "packdrake failed\n";
print C "hdlist$n.cz Mandrake/RPMS$n CD $n Cooker\n";
$cmddep .= " $work_dir/hdlist$n.cz"
}
close C;
system $cmddep;
my $mkiso = qq{mkisofs -r -J -graft-points -nobak -V "Cooker_CD_1" -b images/all.img
-c images/boot.cat -o "$iso/1-Cooker-i586.iso" \\
images/=$rep/images \\
COPYING=$rep/COPYING\\
LICENSE-APPS.txt=$rep/LICENSE-APPS.txt \\
RPM-GPG-KEYS=$rep/RPM-GPG-KEYS \\
autorun.inf=$rep/autorun.inf\\
doc/=$rep/doc \\
install.htm=$rep/install.htm\\
lnx4win/=$rep/lnx4win \\
tutorial/=$rep/tutorial \\
INSTALL.txt=$rep/INSTALL.txt\\
LICENSE.txt=$rep/LICENSE.txt\\
README.txt=$rep/README.txt \\
VERSION=$rep/VERSION\\
boot/=$rep/boot \\
dosutils/=$rep/dosutils \\
index.htm=$rep/index.htm\\
live_update=$rep/live_update\\
misc/=$rep/misc \\
Mandrake/mdkinst/=$rep/Mandrake/mdkinst \\
Mandrake/base/=$rep/Mandrake/base/compssUsers \\
Mandrake/base/=$rep/Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.gz \\
Mandrake/base/=$rep/Mandrake/base/rescue_stage2.gz \\
Mandrake/base/=$rep/Mandrake/base/rpmslist \\
Mandrake/base/=$rep/Mandrake/base/rpmsrate \\
Mandrake/base/=$work_dir/compss \\
Mandrake/base/=$work_dir/depslist.ordered \\
Mandrake/base/=$work_dir/provides \\
Mandrake/base/=$work_dir/hdlists};
foreach (@cd) {
$mkiso .= "\\\n
Re: [Cooker] CD split script
Please, where can I found the mkcd.sh script that some people talked about ? I NEED to burn cooker on CDs to be able to recover the system. Pray, why? If you have the cooker download all ready to make CDs from, why? Easier to take the cd's to other computers, I'd assume. I know when I get cooker installed, if it works out for me I'm going to setup at least 2 more development machines at different sites with it as well. -- Brian
RE: [Cooker] CD split script
If you're stuck in the first stage where you have to tell where to install from (yes the messages were a bit unclear, it's fixed now), it's HIGHLY unprobably that I could eat your partition table! Unprobable? Maybe. Did it do it? YES. If I could give you another answer, I would; but everything happened as I said and when I rebooted I was unable to boot Linux. :( About not finding the directory on the partition, I just implemented an additional feature that lists an extract of the partitions when the program fails to find the directory and/or Linux-Mandrake Distribution on your disks. If you want to try it quicker that the mirrors you can find it here: http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/hd.img Thank you! I just downloaded it and am about to start again. cooker, then try to do hd.img and it wipes everything out. I've tried making one big ISO and installing using the hd.img from that - no luck; I've tried splitting cooker using the script from MDK website and I end up with an install CD that can't initialize my cdrom (???) and a second ISO image You've put "cdrom.img" in the boot record? What does it say? I'm not sure what you mean? that's about 766MB (to big to burn onto a disk). If someone already has a couple of working cooker ISO's on their website, I would very much appreciate being able to download those ~ forget being able to debug the current cooker, I can't even get passed the install script! PLEASE - would someone make some ISO's available? There is an official cooker snapshot planned for january, 24. :-).. I'm looking forward to it! Thanks! Mike -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] CD split script
Warly wrote: Here is a perl script that create isos from a cooker repository. You can modify it to fit your needs, its syntax is trivial. Those 135 lines may seem trivial to you because you wrote them. Actually trying to explain what it does requires a good knowledge of Mandrake's packaging system and/or PERL. (-: -- I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University
Re: [Cooker] CD split script
"J . A . Magallon" wrote: Please, where can I found the mkcd.sh script that some people talked about ? I NEED to burn cooker on CDs to be able to recover the system. Pray, why? If you have the cooker download all ready to make CDs from, why? Just install Cooker into another partition using a floppy made from the /images/hd.img from your Cooker download partition. Read the instructions in the download. Last time I installed a buggy rpm for glibc, the boot disks or CDs of 7.2 worth noting over a system running glibc22 and rpm4. Regretfully not comprehensible English. -- Regards, Ron. [AU]
