I am working with some prototype installer Anaconda/Kadischi discs..
but to make that happen, Anaconda has been modified just a tiny bit.
I have a patch here that deals with a make dev/root node that if it
recieves an OSError it will pass
instead of fail, which is required inside the LiveCD environment. I'm
not absolutely sure this is the
right way to handle this scenario however. Any thoughts?
I also have a patch that makes Anaconda not fail, when trying to invoke
syslogd when it is already
running in teh LiveCD environment, and isn't in the same path as
Anaconda would be looking for
in a normal case scenario. Please look at the patches, and see if we can
do something proper here
to allow Anaconda to be spawned from a working LiveCD system.
If anything, the patches at least provide a standpoint from my situation
to explain where problems are occuring
in spawning Anaconda on a running, Live system. Maybe the devs know a
better solution than what is delivered in teh patches.
These problems rectified brings it one step closer to having
a LiveCD to system installer, which would be awesome.
Thank you.
J. Hartline
--- fsset.py.orig 2006-09-16 20:06:21.000000000 -0500
+++ fsset.py 2006-09-16 20:11:45.000000000 -0500
@@ -1285,7 +1285,10 @@
isys.makeDevInode(root.device.getDevice(), dev)
rdev = os.stat(dev).st_rdev
- os.mknod("%s/dev/root" % (instPath,), stat.S_IFBLK | 0600, rdev)
+ try:
+ os.mknod("%s/dev/root" % (instPath,), stat.S_IFBLK | 0600, rdev)
+ except:
+ pass
# return the "boot" device
def getBootDev(self):
--- syslogd.py.orig 2006-09-16 20:07:19.000000000 -0500
+++ syslogd.py 2006-09-16 20:12:13.000000000 -0500
@@ -73,8 +73,11 @@
if os.access (f+"/syslogd", os.X_OK):
path = f+"/syslogd"
break
-
- os.execv (path, ("syslogd", root, log))
+
+ try:
+ os.execv (path, ("syslogd", root, log))
+ except:
+ pass
def stop(self):
if self.pid == -1:
