[SoaS] update: zyx-liveinstaller-0.1.14 Tested

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Works here on 4 GB Sandisk USB on hp Pavillion (AMD Turion 64) Laptop
* 200 MiB  ext2 for /boot
* 2.93 GiB ext4 for /
* 902 Mib  linux-swap
selinux problem fixed, boots fine (wired).

Tom Gilliard
satellit

Douglas McClendon wrote:
> I've made important fixes to zyx-liveinstaller, the install-to-disk tool 
> in soas02.iso.
>
> * Tue Oct 13 2009 Douglas McClendon - dmc AT viros DOT org - 0.1.14-1
> - bugfix: handle nondefault kernel cmdline args
> - debug: backend failure exception propogation tested and working
> - bugfix: catch exception for situation with no /dev/disk/by-id
> - bugfix: yes, there seems to have indeed been a bug with no-swap installs
>
> v0.1.12 is in soas02.iso.  If you want to test immediately with 
> soas02.iso, start terminal, become root, and type
>
> rpm -e zyx-liveinstaller
> rpm -Uvh \ 
> http://filteredperception.org/downloads/zyx-liveinstaller/zyx-liveinstaller-0.1.14-1.i386.rpm
>
> Then as root or non-root, launch by typing 'zyx-liveinstaller' as usual.
>
> The prior removal is necessary due to I think subtle packaging spec file 
> differences between me and what Sebastian uses for the Fedora 
> repositories builds.
>
> During my qemu test with soas02.iso, I actually used gparted.  It isn't 
> obvious anywhere, but you can create your destination partition(s) as 
> 'unformatted' as opposed to 'ext2' or whatever.  The installer formats 
> and flags the partitions correctly, so if gparted formats them, it won't 
> hurt, but it takes time.  And note that under qemu's small resolution, 
> you are a click away in two places from seeing gparted's 'apply' button 
> which on decent resolutions, is normally just visible.
>
> Bugs, feedback, patches, praise, and criticism encouraged as always...
>
> Cheers,
>
> -dmc
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