I'm new to anaconda and to redhat. Been studying the code for a while
now. My first objective was to execute the code from the files
downloaded from cvs. (working with anaconda-11.1.2.27). I used the
"/path/to/anaconda/anaconda --method:hd///dev:fstype:path"
(/usr/sbin/anaconda
--method=hd:///dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03:ext3:/mnt to be more
exact) command.
the firs error the anaconda reported was had something to do with the
fstype. I started debuging the code and noticed that in the isys.py
file on line 202 the fstype variable was passed as "ext3:" and not as
"ext3" as I expected. So I manually changed the variable for the
algorithm to continue. and it did. I have read the bugzilla for
anaconda, not all of it but a lot of them, and have found no bug related
to this matter. Is this even a bug? I might be doing something wrong.
Any comments?
The next error anaconda reported was on line on the rhel.py file in line
160 it stated that a key that was not present in the "self.taskMap"
attribute was trying to be accessed. On debuging I noticed that the
variable was set to a different value than those stated on line 32 of
the same file (shown in quotations). I manually changed the variable
and kept on going. I also notice that you might be able to modify this
variable by modifying the system variable _PRODUCTPATH. I didnt try it
but I saw a hint of this in the code.
Initialization of taskMap:
"
taskMap = {'client' : [(N_("Office"), ["office"]),
(N_("Multimedia"), ["graphics",
"sound-and-video"])],
'server' : [(N_("Software Development"),
["development-libs", "development-tools",
"gnome-software-development",
"x-software-development"],),
(N_("Web server"), ["web-server"])],
'workstation' : [(N_("Software Development"),
["development-libs", "development-tools",
"gnome-software-development",
"x-software-development"],)],
'vt' : [(N_("Virtualization"),
["virtualization"])],
'cluster' : [(N_("Clustering"), ["clustering"])],
'clusterstorage': [(N_("Storage Clustering"),
["cluster-storage"])]
}"
It has gotten to the point in which the script is looking for the image
#1 and does not find it. The problem is that when anaconda exits the
Logical Volume "/dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol03" that I'm using for the
installation gets corrupted in such a way that I cannot run anaconda
again using the same device. Moreover the "mount" has problems managing
this device. After anaconda exits the "mount" command gives no hint of
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol03, when I try to mount it the it say that
it is already mounted or busy. In any case, I cannot mount it or
un-mount it. These leaves me with the rebooting option. Which is very
time consuming and would prefer other possibilities. Any comments???
Regards
Joel
