[SoaS] soas20.iso and zyx-liveinstaller - soas03 update

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Doug;

1.)Booted from CD soas03 with native zyx-liveinstaller (14-1?) used 4Gb 
USB in hp Pavillion Laptop with Turion64 (came with vista premium) hard 
disk removed.

 4Gb USB erased and then formatted "unformatted"   with on zyx 
partitioner, did not select anything but / as sda1. It wrote and said 
successful completion. But on reboot with USB::: "Missing operating system'

(on looking at USB for 2nd try with zyx partitioner: it looked unchanged 
from before I erased it. (One fat16 partition.) Is this how it should 
have looked?)

2.Next tried:
partitioned USB:

100 fat16 /boot
3000 ext3 /
balance linux swap
selected all three in zyx

It worked fine.

3.) Also used same 4GB USB to boot EeePC900 wirelessly. Worked fine

So does not seem possible to use "unformatted" for type to do install on 
1 partition, Unless I did something wrong.

Tom Gilliard
satellit

Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
>> Sebastian;
>>
>> New soas02.iso boots well on hp laptop (graphical (plymouth)) and on 
>> EeePC1000HE ( non graphical horizontal bar (Fedora 10.9) )
>> It works from burned CD
>> and
>> VMworkstation (IDE DISKS ONLY) from .iso
>
>
> I've got a new 0.1.15 version of zyx-liveinstaller even though I just
> tested the 0.1.14 that made it into soas03.iso, and it appears to be
> working pretty well.
>
> The 3 changes are
>
> a) now enforces minimum sizes for destination choices.  It may have been
> the case that an attempt to install to <2GB root would have failed in
> strange ways.  Now it displays an error stating the too-small size and
> the needed size.
>
> b) centos(-5.4) support.  This is the majority of the change, and
> perhaps not desirable this close to the next release.  Also, I made the
> banner-logo and icon 75% less nationalistic (just muted the red white
> and blue colors).
>
> and c) completely untested possible support for kvm/vmware virt disks
> that show up as /dev/vd*.  I really did this because oddly under qemu,
> centos-5.4 disks show up as /dev/hd instead of /dev/sd.  So I went ahead
> and allowed /dev/vd as well.  I don't know if this is all that is
> needed, but I'd love to find out if you guys can test.
>
> -dmc
>
>
>>
>> I then tried zyx-liveinstaller. It wrote to 4GB USB on both machines. 
>> BUT selinux blocks boot on resulting USB/SD's
>> how do we add selinux=0 to live installs ? the relaxed selinux 
>> setting from the CD is not being written to the zyx-liveinstaller USB/SD
>>
>> Cordially;
>>
>> Tom Gilliard
>> satellit
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