On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:32:12AM -0400, Warren W. Thompson wrote: > Glad to hear that I am not the only one having problems. BTW, someone > else on this list recommended that I actually install the cobbler'd > distribution on one of the target systems and then copy that in place > of the read-only root installation presented by the Fedora instructions.
well, i managed to clear the anaconda hurdle, so i don't think i need to resort to that workaround. (in actuality, i'm amazed that anaconda has the ability to install to a subdirectory rather than do the usual partitioning and what not, so setting up another machine to do it now strikes me as an inelegant kludge--so long as this anaconda usage con- tinues to work) > > That does seem like a good idea, but unfortunately, other priorities > have prevented me from getting to try this yet. same with Red Hat, it seems > > I never even got to the point where Puppet came in to the picture. > Perhaps some of the problems that you encountered will get better > after RHEL 5 update 2 is released. i doubt it. inasmuch as there's no fuse support in RHEL 5 and i doubt that they're going to slipstream it in and possibly open up a can of worms with having to troubleshoot their customers' foofs.sourceforge.net -related problems, the union mounting support that the stateless proj- ect's initscripts depends on is probably not happening any time soon. i'm looking at customizing the rwtab or supplementing with custom early-running init scripts or something to deal with at least puppet's requirement for persistent storage and see how far i get _______________________________________________ Stateless-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/stateless-list
