I don't know why I didn't think of it at first, but when I tried to follow your instructions last night, I realized that since Vyatta doesn't have the CCISS drivers, there's no way for even the live CD to partition the drive. So basically, I'm SOL, which sucks. I guess I'll have to implement my firewall the old fashioned way on CentOS...
Robert Bays wrote: > 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. >>> >>> >>> 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. >>> >> 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. >> -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
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