On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 18:02 +0000, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:37 AM, John Watlington <w...@laptop.org> wrote: > > > > The OLPC web-based git interface was changed, due to security > > holes in the previous one. Unfortunately, links into it still haven't > > been changed. > > > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > > > >> > >> http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/xs-livecd;a=blob;f=util/mkusbinstall;hb=HEAD > > > > Git it in raw form at: > > http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/xs-livecd/plain/util/mkusbinstall > > or formatted at: > > http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/xs-livecd/tree/util/mkusbinstall > > > >> on > >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software#Optional:_Using_a_USB_key.2Fdisk_for_installation > >> leads to a blank page. > > > > Cheers, > > wad > > > >> Suggestions? > >> > >> Sameer > >> -- > >> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > >> Associate Professor of Information Systems > >> San Francisco State University > >> San Francisco CA 94132 USA > >> http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > >> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Server-devel mailing list > >> Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > > > > > > Thanks! > > I tried the mkusbinstall script. It works. Installing from USB is > another matter. It chokes initially when looking for ks.cfg as the > install documentation suggests. The LABEL of the USB stick somehow > doesn't get read. So, I have to type in the location (/dev/sdb1) in my > case. Further down in the instllation right after formatting the > filesystems, it chokes again, looking for the ISO path (same path > problem) but this time, I have no way to change it and point it to > /dev/sdb1. I can only Abort. > > Any suggestions? Can I pass any parameters at boot time to make the LABEL > stick?
Yea, at the boot prompt remove the "method= part, you will have to manually select the hard-drive install method, once in anaconda. If you want to have an auto select install, then the patches I posted links to previously for anaconda would need to be implemented. Just wondering what are you installing the XS onto, an XO? Jerry _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel