[SoaS] soas02.iso and zyx-liveinstaller 16-1 testing

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Doug;


I downloaded and tested 16-1 tonight:

1.)Sandisk Cruzer 4GB  USB
formatted as single partition ext2:
/  and /boot selected to sda1 (no swap)
installs fine and finishes
BUT:
boot: error 17 (does not boot)
   and
isolinux.bin missing or corrupt
(I tested this 2 times)

2.) 2GB SD Sandisk SD
/boot 97.2
/       1.70Gib
Error: installer back-end failed zyx-liveinstaller-cli:error
target root size -1847475 (kb) is less than live root size 2097152 (kb)

3.)  Sandisk Cruzer 4GB USB
     /boot 97.2   ext2   (100)
     /    greater than 3000  ext3   (balance of device)
    (no swap)
Works Fine
===============================
-Looks like 2GB SD and some USB's will be too small.
-Need to format in partitioner with /boot and /  (does not yet work on 
single partition)
-root partition needs to be at least 2097152 (kb)


Thanks for all of your work on this.
Cordially;

Tom Gilliard
satellit


Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
>> Doug;
>>
>> I just installed to a USB with version 15-1 using the soas03 CD
>>
>> First I tried deleting the partitions on a USB and reformated it as 
>> unformated (on the parted drop down menu.)
>> The stick still will not boot for me when installed from an 
>> unformatted partition.
>
>
> Next, there is a difference between removing all partitions, and just 
> having a single partition.  Both should actually work, but it is a 
> distinction for debugging reasons.  (and because I've never tested a 
> single wholedisk install)
>
>>
>> Then I formatted as 200 ext2/boot and 3000 ext3 / (no swap.) It 
>> installed and worked fine.
>>
>> I tried all kinds of combos on a 2 and 1 GB stick and zyx 15-1 gave 
>> me errors saying too small and gracefully let me quit.
>>
>> (Is there a way to use a 2GB stick?)
>
> Ok, this probably explains that problem.  The answer subtely depends 
> on '2G'.  The minimum is right at 2G, so depending on whether the 
> stick is really 2.1G or 1.9G...  Sebastian could potentially shrink 
> the rootfs size in the kickstart that generates soas a bit, and that 
> might make the difference.  Can you report the numbers in the error 
> message?
>
>>
>> Then I could re enter command from terminal and retry.
>> This is much  nicer than the system hang of 14-1 that required a 
>> restart of the CD to continue.
>>
>> I made a 4 GB USB and a 4GB SD (Lexar USB2.0 SDHC Reader).
>> The SD is a nice way to use a EeePC900 netbook wirelessly.
>>
>> (I visited your web page and looked for 16-1 but did not see a 
>> 16-1.rpm file to test.)
>
> It's there, though it is now a noarch, and you should be able to rpm 
> -Uvh without rpm -e'ing the first one.
>
> In fact, if your soas boot has internet connnection, you should be 
> able to do-
>
> rpm -Uvh \
> http://filteredperception.org/downloads/zyx-liveinstaller/zyx-liveinstaller-0.1.16-1.noarch.rpm 
>
>
> 0.1.16 definitely contains an important 2nd part of the fix to the 
> no-swap installation problem.  I hope the fix is now complete.
>
> Good luck,
>
> -dmc
>
>
>
>> Thanks again;
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>