On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:23:54PM -0500, Warren W. Thompson wrote: > > Hi: > > I realize that I am on the bleeding edge in attempting to use > this technology under RHEL 5; however, I would really like to > see this work as I have more than a few systems to administer. > > What I have accomplished...
i wish i'd read your post before reinventing some of those wheels > 4. And now, the show stopper... > > After Anaconda appears to make it most of the way through > preparing the installation, I get a fatal crash involving an > attempt to convert the downloaded size of of the package > 'java-1.5.0-ibm-src.i386'. somehow i managed to evade this one. i got my packages from a cobbler import of the RHEL 5.1 DVD ISO and used the FC6 kickstart config (figuring that was closer to RHEL 5's vintage, but i was just guessing) and anaconda sorta worked. (i mean, except for everything FUSE-related not being found in the RHEL or stateless repositories. [i gather it's in extras for FC 6.] if Fedora's using FUSE to handle some of the stateless stuff, what's RHEL's stateless ``technology preview'' based on if RHEL includes no FUSE?) > I would really like to see this technology work, and I have read in > the RHEL 5.1 release notes that the RHEL is now ready for use with > Stateless Linux. me, too so, my RHEL 5 diskless cobbler-ed system (where the distro or profile or whatever was a straight copy of the fc6 analog) pypxeboot-s a 2.6.18-53.el5xen kernel inside a paravirt, but a few things complain about root being read-only, and puppet expires ingloriously (and i couldn't login to the xvc0 console until updating inittab and, even then, agetty or something isn't working right so i had to replace it with sulogin [for now] just to get a shell). what's supposed to take care of making sure puppet has some place to write? as far as i can tell, there's nothing that refers to the /.snapshot mountpoint of my CLIENTSTATE=mynfsserver:/export/private/myclient _______________________________________________ Stateless-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/stateless-list
