Re: [Sisuite-users] mkautoinstalldiskette problem

Mark Seger Tue, 11 May 2004 09:56:22 -0700

ok, here's some more data. I just reinstalled SI 3.1.8 and in too wouldn't build a floppy. however, if I installed 3.0.1 it WOULD build a floppy, however the floppy that it built is the one I wasn't able to start the network with!

as an aside, when I tried this new floppy I didn't have a local.cfg on it and so it went off and merrily talked to a dhcp server, so now I'm thinking there must be something in my local.cfg file causing my problems, but that's the topic of a different discussion.

so the bottom line if some time after version 3.0.1 mkinitrd got too big to fit on a floppy any more so either drop the mkautoinstalldiskette functionality OR distribute a smaller initrd with the kit.

-mark

Mark Seger wrote:

well it looks like I just bumped into this as well as part of the autoinstall tests I'm doing. I decided to start from scratch, reinstalling RedHat 9 and systemimager 3.2. when I do my mkautinstalldiskette I too run out of room. I guess my question is, isn't this supposed to work out-of-the box? At one time I was able to get an autoinstall diskette (before I reinstalled) so what changed? when I look at file sizes I see a kernel that's 979K and an initrd.img that's 513K plus an 8K ldlinux.sys, which totals about 1500K. what's really odd is the last initrd that was build my mkautoinstalldiskette was only 482K. still too big but still different. alas, I've since overwritten the diskette on which everything fit because I expected to this to just work.

so what gives? if I do have to remove some things from initrd, what can be safely removed and if it's making initrd too big to fit on a floppy why is it even in there in the first place?

-mark
From: Thomas Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:58:14 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] mkautoinstalldiskette problem
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Thanks for stating the obvious. :) But is there a simple solution or do I have to create a custom kernel to use the mkautoinstalldiskette command?

Tom S.
the default image is too big to fit on a 1.44 MB floppy.
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I'm hoping that there is a simple solution to this problem. The problem I'm having is as follows:

I installed the RPMS for 3.2.0 on a RedHat 9 system and tried to use the mkautoinstalldiskette command. I select the standard kernel and it fails everytime with an error (Could not copy /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/initrd.img to /tmp/.autoinstalldiskette.4300!).
Are the RPMS for 3.2.0 on sourceforge no good?  I need this to work
quickly and don't want to have to recompile everything from source if I
can avoid it.
I would appreciate any help I can get to quickly resolve this.

Tom S.

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