On 8 Feb 2002, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 16:55, ext Bill Crawford wrote:
> > On 8 Feb 2002, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 16:27, ext Bill Crawford wrote:
> > ...
> > > > I've not been able to get this to work. It launches OK (and I'm
> > > > quite impressed with the speed and whatnot of it running under the
> > > > real X server and not on the framebuffer) but then bombs out after
> > > > it gets to the "partitioning" dialog ... should that not be skipped
> > > > when I've specified a root to install to?
> >
> > > It still tries to *read* the partition tables on each drive you have
> > > present so you'll need to run it as root. It'd be nice to have at least
> > > a command line switch to turn the whole partitioning code off for these
> > > kind of purposes...
> >
> > I want to run as non-root because I'm running it on a system I use
> > for all my work here. I daren't break it. I only have one working
> > box at home, too, so it's pretty much critical I don't damage it.
>
> Yup.. know the feeling :)
>
> >
> > I'll have another poke aroung in Anaconda to see if I can switch
> > this off. Or add YAOTDTDB (yet another option to disable the default
> > behaviour :o)
>
> Another way of course is to give yourself read access to /dev/hda &
> friends.
Alas and alack, that doesn't work anyway; I'll have to run as root
(which makes me *very* nervous :o) :-
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/bill/rpm/tmp/anaconda-7.2.90//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 426, in nextClicked
self.dispatch.gotoNext()
File "/home/bill/rpm/tmp/anaconda-7.2.90//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 145, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
File "/home/bill/rpm/tmp/anaconda-7.2.90//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 210, in moveStep
rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
File "/home/bill/rpm/tmp/anaconda-7.2.90//usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py", line 1900, in partitionObjectsInitialize
partitions.setFromDisk(diskset)
File "/home/bill/rpm/tmp/anaconda-7.2.90//usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py", line 1067, in setFromDisk
labels = diskset.getLabels()
File "/home/bill/rpm/tmp/anaconda-7.2.90//usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py", line 1517, in getLabels
label = isys.readExt2Label(node)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 365, in readExt2Label
makeDevInode(device, "/tmp/disk")
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 237, in makeDevInode
_isys.mkdevinode(name, fn)
SystemError: (1, 'Operation not permitted')
I'm also a little concerned by those filenames (picked up from the
package build process, for some reason) ...
> - Panu -
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Bill Crawford, Unix Systems Developer, GTS Netcom
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