Hi there,
I'm trying to put together a standard way of installing FC3 (and future
releases) for our customers. We already have a knoppix rescue system
that will boot any of our dedicated hosts, and I'd like that system to
be able to install various distros from this customised knoppix distro:
the first one I'm tackling by popular demand is FC3 (though we're a
Debian and Gentoo shop on the whole, hence my cry for help :) ).
So I'm in the position of having a local mirror of the FC3 distribution
and have a machine booted with a configured network interface and
read-only rescue filesystem.
What I did was to grab /i386/os/Fedora/base/stage2.img from a
recently-mirroed copy of the FC3 distribution, run cramfsck to extract
it locally to a tmpfs disc, mounted proc and so on, then run "chroot
/tmp/stage2 /usr/bin/anaconda ... " specifying http: as the method. It
runs with a bit of terminal corruption, but I've hit two fatal snags:
1) "no such file or directory while creating journal" when trying to
create an ext3 filesystem... worked around by choosing ext2 and using
tune2fs -j afterwards.
once I get past that I hit another one:
2) http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119447
"RuntimeError: /usr/sbin/kudzu can not be run" which seems impassable.
The bug is marked as fixed, but without any explanation as to what
conditions might cause it. From what I can see, it goes from
"Processing depencies.." to a suspiciously short install, then to
"Post-install" almost straight away and then this error. I assume it
thinks the installation has finished and so kudzu will be present, but
it doesn't and I can't see any errors to indicate what might have happened.
Can anyone think of what I'm doing wrong? My kickstart disc setup is
like this:
clearpart --all --drives=hda --initlabel
clearpart --all --drives=hdb --initlabel
part swap --size=1024 --ondisk=hda
part swap --size=1024 --ondisk=hdb
part raid.0 --size=30000 --ondisk=hda
part raid.1 --size=30000 --ondisk=hdb
raid / --fstype ext2 --level=RAID1 raid.0 raid.1
I'm also selecting no packages for installation (and have tried
installing "everything" as well just in case). Can anyone suggest what
might be causing the problem?
cheers,
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Matthew Bloch, Bytemark Hosting
