Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Davidsen

Craig White wrote:

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:08 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:

Craig White wrote:

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 21:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and
not a 
separate partition?  See at:

http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/pix/root-not-allowed.jpg


I would presume that with runlevel 1 (single user mode), that it would
be a problem to run as root and root's home directory is not available.

Why would it be missing? The /root mount point would be there, the home 
directory would just be empty, and that's not an issue.


good point

I think that actually provides more of the actual reason why anaconda
doesn't permit a /root mounted partition though because it would toss
the logs into /root and the mount would hide the logs (but of course
anaconda could probably move the files to the mounted partition but that
would require more coding. 

I didn't mean to sound as if I favored /root as a filesystem, but the logic is 
bogus, the directory will certainly be there. The main use of the stuff in /root 
is for backup of local changes.  ;-)


find /etc -mnewer /root/install.log | cpio -oB -Hustar |
gzip -9v etc-new-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz

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Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB stick

2009-12-10 Thread David A. De Graaf
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:30:04PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
 On Monday 07 December 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote:
 I've been trying to install Fedora-12 from a memory stick
 to which I have transferred the KDE Live CD
 using livecd-iso-to-disk .
 
 The problem is that the ancient machine I am dealing with
 does not support booting from the USB stick.
 
   ...
 I should say that this is a purely theoretical experiment;
 I know there are many other ways I could install Fedora-12.
 But I installed F-12 on several other machines using the USB stick,
 and it would be useful to know if I could actually update
 all machines in this way.
 
 I wouldn't mind being able to do something similar myself. I have an 8Gb 
 stick with the F12 install iso on it, as a file at the instant, and my dvd 
 writer seems to have turned itself into a write only for dvd's but is still 
 reading cd's ok.  However, this asus bios I have not seen a boot from usb 
 option in its boot menu's.  Any ideas as to how to proceed?
 
On all my machines that are capable of booting from a USB memory stick
the stick shows up as another hard disk.  With a bootable stick
inserted, reboot and enter the BIOS.  Look for hard drive boot
priority, or something like that.  You may see the memory stick
listed, but (stupidly) it's usually the last item listed.  If you move
it up to first position and save, it'll boot from it.
Sadly, after you remove it and reinsert it, the BIOS will usually
revert to using it last.  (What goes thru the minds of BIOS coders?)

If the BIOS fails to list the memory stick as a hard drive, you're out
of luck, I'm afraid.

Here, for the record, are my notes on how to create a bootable memory
stick that's equivalent to the installation DVD.  It's a bit more
intricate than you've described.


***   Update for F12 - 11/20/09   ***

It's much easier to install Fedora from a bootable USB memory stick
that contains the DVD iso image than burning an actual DVD disk. 
Previously, I was able to squeeze both the i386 and x86_64 iso images
onto a single 8 GB stick, but it required editing the images to delete
irrelevant foreign language components.  With F12 I gave up and put
each system on a separate USB stick.

Here's what I did:

1)  Download both images:
  i386:
  -rw-r--r-- 1 dad dad   1511 Nov 12 01:23 Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM
  -rw-r--r-- 1 dad dad 3204427776 Nov  8 19:02 Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso

  x86_64:
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 dad dad   1525 Nov 12 01:24 Fedora-12-x86_64-CHECKSUM
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 dad dad 3537600512 Nov  8 19:11 Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso

and run sha256sum on each to verify they're correct.


2)  Insert a USB stick to hold the 386 image and note the device name
assigned, eg, /dev/sdb.
Usefdisk /dev/sdb   to create a single partition, /dev/sdb1, of type
Linux, and set it bootable.

3)  Make an ext2 filesystem on /dev/sdb1.  To maximize the available
space, eliminate items that are customarily included in a filesystem:

do NOT use -j to create a journal file
set the number of inodes to only 100
set the reserved block percentage to 0
  mkfs.ext2 -N 100 -m 0 /dev/sdb1

4)  Install a bootable mini-Linux by running livecd-iso-to-disk
  livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --noverify Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso /dev/sdb1

5)  Copy the install.img file and the big iso file
Create mount points for the iso and the USB partition.
  mkdir /mnt/iso
  mkdir /mnt/usb

  mount -o loop  Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso/mnt/iso
  mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
  mkdir /mnt/usb/images
  cp /mnt/iso/images/install.img  /mnt/usb/images/
  cp Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso  /mnt/usb/

  umount /mnt/usb /mnt/iso
and remove the USB stick.


Repeat for the x86_64 version.


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Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB stick

2009-12-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 December 2009, David A. De Graaf wrote:
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:30:04PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
[...]

If the BIOS fails to list the memory stick as a hard drive, you're out
of luck, I'm afraid.

If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all...

Here, for the record, are my notes on how to create a bootable memory
stick that's equivalent to the installation DVD.  It's a bit more
intricate than you've described.


***   Update for F12 - 11/20/09   ***

It's much easier to install Fedora from a bootable USB memory stick
that contains the DVD iso image than burning an actual DVD disk.
Previously, I was able to squeeze both the i386 and x86_64 iso images
onto a single 8 GB stick, but it required editing the images to delete
irrelevant foreign language components.  With F12 I gave up and put
each system on a separate USB stick.

Here's what I did:

1)  Download both images:
  i386:
  -rw-r--r-- 1 dad dad   1511 Nov 12 01:23 Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM
  -rw-r--r-- 1 dad dad 3204427776 Nov  8 19:02 Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso

  x86_64:
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 dad dad   1525 Nov 12 01:24 Fedora-12-x86_64-CHECKSUM
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 dad dad 3537600512 Nov  8 19:11 Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso

and run sha256sum on each to verify they're correct.


2)  Insert a USB stick to hold the 386 image and note the device name
assigned, eg, /dev/sdb.
Usefdisk /dev/sdb   to create a single partition, /dev/sdb1, of type
Linux, and set it bootable.

3)  Make an ext2 filesystem on /dev/sdb1.  To maximize the available
space, eliminate items that are customarily included in a filesystem:

do NOT use -j to create a journal file
set the number of inodes to only 100
set the reserved block percentage to 0
  mkfs.ext2 -N 100 -m 0 /dev/sdb1

4)  Install a bootable mini-Linux by running livecd-iso-to-disk
  livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --noverify Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso
 /dev/sdb1

5)  Copy the install.img file and the big iso file
Create mount points for the iso and the USB partition.
  mkdir /mnt/iso
  mkdir /mnt/usb

  mount -o loop  Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso/mnt/iso
  mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
  mkdir /mnt/usb/images
  cp /mnt/iso/images/install.img  /mnt/usb/images/
  cp Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso  /mnt/usb/

  umount /mnt/usb /mnt/iso
and remove the USB stick.


Repeat for the x86_64 version.



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Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen

Craig White wrote:

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 21:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and
not a 
separate partition?  See at:

http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/pix/root-not-allowed.jpg


I would presume that with runlevel 1 (single user mode), that it would
be a problem to run as root and root's home directory is not available.

Why would it be missing? The /root mount point would be there, the home 
directory would just be empty, and that's not an issue.


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Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-09 Thread Bill Davidsen

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net writes:
What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and not a 
separate partition?  See at:


root's home dir has traditionally been / just to ensure that it is alway
present and an emergency login is likely to suceed without error.
Putting it in the rootfs instead of, say a /home partition, is just more
of the same hedging.

Root's home directory is /root for years. I'm too lazy to dig out my remaining 
V7 system, but I don't think it used / either, I just can't remember, I was 
doing MULTICS and VMS mostly until SysIII days.



Sure, you might be able to get away with putting root on the non-root
partition when things are working well, but I suspect you'll be cursing
yourself the first time the system coughs up a hairball and can't mount
~root/ and asks you to perform brain surgery on the filesystem.  (I do
have a few aliases for root that makes life nicer and the anacondia
install logs are nice to look at also if one needs to mkfs a trashed fs
with the same format flags and repopulate from the last backup.

If you keep anything vital to system operation in root's home directory you are 
in a small minority. The filesystem information is in /etc/fstab, if that's gone 
you're in a rescue disk boot anyway.


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Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-09 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:08 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
 Craig White wrote:
  On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 21:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
  What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and
  not a 
  separate partition?  See at:
  http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/pix/root-not-allowed.jpg
  
  I would presume that with runlevel 1 (single user mode), that it would
  be a problem to run as root and root's home directory is not available.
  
 Why would it be missing? The /root mount point would be there, the home 
 directory would just be empty, and that's not an issue.

good point

I think that actually provides more of the actual reason why anaconda
doesn't permit a /root mounted partition though because it would toss
the logs into /root and the mount would hide the logs (but of course
anaconda could probably move the files to the mounted partition but that
would require more coding. 

Craig


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Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-09 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht

Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com writes:
 If you keep anything vital to system operation in root's home
 directory you are in a small minority. The filesystem information is
 in /etc/fstab, if that's gone you're in a rescue disk boot anyway.

Depending on what login in the then current instantiation does, it may
or may not even let you log in if home doesn't exist.  If $PATH takes
you to a directory that can't be read because of a failed disk it could
hang you forever (think $HOME/bin).  There may not be anything important
in root's home, but the existence of it itself could be important.

The stuff I keep in /root that would be nice to have access to is notes
mostly and aliases that my fingers expect to have available (like ll
etc).  There are also key remappings to put the keys back to something
resembling a vt100.

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Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-08 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht

Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net writes:
 What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and not a 
 separate partition?  See at:

root's home dir has traditionally been / just to ensure that it is alway
present and an emergency login is likely to suceed without error.
Putting it in the rootfs instead of, say a /home partition, is just more
of the same hedging.

Sure, you might be able to get away with putting root on the non-root
partition when things are working well, but I suspect you'll be cursing
yourself the first time the system coughs up a hairball and can't mount
~root/ and asks you to perform brain surgery on the filesystem.  (I do
have a few aliases for root that makes life nicer and the anacondia
install logs are nice to look at also if one needs to mkfs a trashed fs
with the same format flags and repopulate from the last backup.

-wolfgang
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Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
R. G. Newbury wrote:

   I've been trying to install Fedora-12 from a memory stick
   to which I have transferred the KDE Live CD
   using livecd-iso-to-disk .

 If you have a reasonably recent ASUS mb with an AMi BIOS, setting it to
 boot from USB is rather obscure. You need to plug in the USB stick and
 reboot. The USB device will then show up in the list of hard drives
 under Boot Order (going from memory there, but its on the Boot tab, and
 the second or third entry, iirc). Move the USB HDD entry to the top of
 the list, then save and reboot.

Thanks for the suggestion,
but it seems my machine is too ancient - about 10 years old, I think.
It has an Asus P2B-LS motherboard, with Award BIOS.
I have been unable to find anything in the BIOS to allow
booting from the USB memory stick.

I tried booting again from the KDE Live CD vmlinuz0 and initrd0.img
copied to the hard disk, with the USB partition given as root
in the kernel line.
As far as I can see, the machine does boot from the USB stick,
but the boot fails, saying that the check of boot1, 
which is actually my Fedora-11 /boot partition, has failed.
I've run fsck.ext3 -f on this partition (after unmounting it),
and it seems perfectly OK.

It seems to me that something odd happens in this scenario.
I don't see why it tries to check this partition anyway -
as far as I can see, it should only be looking at the USB stick,
so where does it get a list of partitions to check?
It seems in fact to be reading the Fedora-11 /etc/fstab ,
but I don't see why.

I tried going into the interactive boot, but this failed
(pressing I had no effect),
and in any case I would not have known what to do.

Is there a kernel command to omit fsck checks?



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Installing Fedora-12 from USB stick

2009-12-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
I've been trying to install Fedora-12 from a memory stick
to which I have transferred the KDE Live CD
using livecd-iso-to-disk .

The problem is that the ancient machine I am dealing with
does not support booting from the USB stick.

So following advice here, I transferred vmlinuz0 and initrd0.img
from the stick to the hard disk,
and added a stanza to grub to boot from this:
---
title Upgrade to Fedora-12
root (hd0,1)
kernel /syslinux/vmlinuz0 root=/dev/sdc2
initrd /syslinux/initrd0.img
---
Here /dev/sdc2 is the relevant partition on the memory stick.

This works up to a point;
but it fails (after entering the interactive stage)
when trying to check the partitions, presumably with fsck .
In particular the check on the boot partition is said to fail,
even though it boots perfectly well with this partition under F-11.

I don't understand where it gets a list of partitions to check -
it seems to be using /etc/fstab from the Fedora-11 system,
which seems illogical to me.

In any case, my query is: Is there any way of adding something
to the grub kernel line to stop partition checking?

Or is there some other trick I could apply?

I should say that this is a purely theoretical experiment;
I know there are many other ways I could install Fedora-12.
But I installed F-12 on several other machines using the USB stick,
and it would be useful to know if I could actually update
all machines in this way.


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Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB stick

2009-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 December 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I've been trying to install Fedora-12 from a memory stick
to which I have transferred the KDE Live CD
using livecd-iso-to-disk .

The problem is that the ancient machine I am dealing with
does not support booting from the USB stick.

So following advice here, I transferred vmlinuz0 and initrd0.img
from the stick to the hard disk,
and added a stanza to grub to boot from this:
---
title Upgrade to Fedora-12
root (hd0,1)
kernel /syslinux/vmlinuz0 root=/dev/sdc2
initrd /syslinux/initrd0.img
---
Here /dev/sdc2 is the relevant partition on the memory stick.

This works up to a point;
but it fails (after entering the interactive stage)
when trying to check the partitions, presumably with fsck .
In particular the check on the boot partition is said to fail,
even though it boots perfectly well with this partition under F-11.

I don't understand where it gets a list of partitions to check -
it seems to be using /etc/fstab from the Fedora-11 system,
which seems illogical to me.

In any case, my query is: Is there any way of adding something
to the grub kernel line to stop partition checking?

Or is there some other trick I could apply?

I should say that this is a purely theoretical experiment;
I know there are many other ways I could install Fedora-12.
But I installed F-12 on several other machines using the USB stick,
and it would be useful to know if I could actually update
all machines in this way.

I wouldn't mind being able to do something similar myself. I have an 8Gb 
stick with the F12 install iso on it, as a file at the instant, and my dvd 
writer seems to have turned itself into a write only for dvd's but is still 
reading cd's ok.  However, this asus bios I have not seen a boot from usb 
option in its boot menu's.  Any ideas as to how to proceed?

Thanks.

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Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-07 Thread R. G. Newbury

Gene Heskett wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
 I've been trying to install Fedora-12 from a memory stick
 to which I have transferred the KDE Live CD
 using livecd-iso-to-disk .
snip
I wouldn't mind being able to do something similar myself. I have an 
8Gb stick with the F12 install iso on it, as a file at the instant, 
and my dvd writer seems to have turned itself into a write only for 
dvd's but is still reading cd's ok.  However, this asus bios I have not 
seen a boot from usb option in its boot menu's.  Any ideas as to how to 
proceed?



If you have a reasonably recent ASUS mb with an AMi BIOS, setting it to 
boot from USB is rather obscure. You need to plug in the USB stick and 
reboot. The USB device will then show up in the list of hard drives 
under Boot Order (going from memory there, but its on the Boot tab, and 
the second or third entry, iirc). Move the USB HDD entry to the top of 
the list, then save and reboot.


On boot, ISTR that AMI does like Lenovo does, and you can use F12 to 
select the boot device. Even so, it will now boot from the USB stick.


It's rather weird that the 'boot from USB' option does not exist unless 
there is a USB stick plugged in but.


Geoff





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Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 December 2009, R. G. Newbury wrote:
 Gene Heskett wrote:
 
 Timothy Murphy wrote:
  I've been trying to install Fedora-12 from a memory stick
  to which I have transferred the KDE Live CD
  using livecd-iso-to-disk .

snip

 I wouldn't mind being able to do something similar myself. I have an
 8Gb stick with the F12 install iso on it, as a file at the instant,

and my dvd writer seems to have turned itself into a write only for
dvd's but is still reading cd's ok.  However, this asus bios I have not
seen a boot from usb option in its boot menu's.  Any ideas as to how to

 proceed?

If you have a reasonably recent ASUS mb with an AMi BIOS, setting it to
boot from USB is rather obscure. You need to plug in the USB stick and
reboot. The USB device will then show up in the list of hard drives
under Boot Order (going from memory there, but its on the Boot tab, and
the second or third entry, iirc). Move the USB HDD entry to the top of
the list, then save and reboot.

On boot, ISTR that AMI does like Lenovo does, and you can use F12 to
select the boot device. Even so, it will now boot from the USB stick.

It's rather weird that the 'boot from USB' option does not exist unless
there is a USB stick plugged in but.

Geoff

I would have to assume that i order for that to work, I'd need to dd that iso 
to the stick, as opposed to its status as a common file because there is 
other stuff on the stick too.  Not particularly precious stuff if that is 
what it would take.

I ran to town and got a fresh LiteOn drive ($42 USD) a few hrs back, and have 
been playing with the early F12 install.  But based on one question at a 
time:

What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and not a 
separate partition?  See at:
http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/pix/root-not-allowed.jpg

I am ATM, running F10 with /root on its own partition.  As is /usr, but the 
only problem is at shutdown time, it claims /usr is busy and I have to give 
it 10 or more vulcan nerve pinches before it will finally do a shutdown.

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Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-07 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 21:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
 What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and
 not a 
 separate partition?  See at:
 http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/pix/root-not-allowed.jpg

I would presume that with runlevel 1 (single user mode), that it would
be a problem to run as root and root's home directory is not available.

But I am sure you will feel free to abuse your boxes however you see
fit.

Craig


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Re: Installing Fedora-12 from USB

2009-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 December 2009, Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 21:58 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
 What is the rational for demanding that /root be a directory on /, and
 not a
 separate partition?  See at:
 http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/pix/root-not-allowed.jpg


I would presume that with runlevel 1 (single user mode), that it would
be a problem to run as root and root's home directory is not available.

Are you saying that in runlevel 1, not all partitions in /etc/fstab are 
mounted?

If they are not, why not?  Pointers to the docs are fine.

But I am sure you will feel free to abuse your boxes however you see
fit.

Nope, really, I just like continuity.  Once I have something fixed, I want it 
to stay fixed, across upgrades.

Craig



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