On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 17:36, ext Bill Crawford wrote: > 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) Aw.. forgot about that one :( > SystemError: (1, 'Operation not permitted') > > I'm also a little concerned by those filenames (picked up from the > package build process, for some reason) ... Anyway FWIW I've run anaconda in test & chroot install modes plenty of times and it hasn't eaten my boxes (yet :) - Panu -
