The config partition is just a smaller (min 10 meg) partition we use to store configs on. It doesn't get over-written by the install-system script on subsequent installs. It's not entirely necessary in your case.
Take a look at this post for high level instructions... http://mailman.vyatta.com/pipermail/vyatta-users/2007-September/001859.html I would probably make the parts ext3. Your grub menu.lst file should look something like this. default=0 timeout=5 hiddenmenu serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 terminal --timeout=5 console serial title Vyatta OFR root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 initrd /boot/initrd.img cheers, robert. Ben Hollingsworth wrote: > Robert Bays wrote: >> Currently the installer doesn't recognize the devices created by the >> CCISS driver. We don't have an HP here with cciss hardware... I had it >> working about a year ago, but never committed the changes because the >> machine left before we could do a full regression. >> > > Pity. Early DL360's are dirt cheap if you want one on site. This one > is virtually identical to the one I'm using: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/HP-Compaq-DL360-G1-Dual-1-26Ghz-2x18GB-G2-1U-Server-BIN_W0QQitemZ160157168123QQihZ006QQcategoryZ56101QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > >> If you are feeling adventurous you could manually install the image. >> Boot off of the livecd. Use fdisk or parted to create a root and config >> partition on your drive. Recursively copy the livecd root filesystem to >> the drive. Finally run grub on that partition and set up the grub >> menu.lst file. >> > > I'm game for that. > > What is this config partition? How big? Ext3 mounted at /config? Is > the livecd root copied to /, or to /config? > > Exactly what grub command should I run? I'm an old hand at Linux, but I > haven't run grub manually in about 7 years. If you can give me the > exact grub command and the specifics of what to put in the boot > paragraph of menu.lst, that'd save me a lot of headache. > _______________________________________________ Vyatta-users mailing list Vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com http://mailman.vyatta.com/mailman/listinfo/vyatta-users
