[OLPC-AU] Alpha F11 XS installer

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Tue Sep 28 06:16:15 EDT 2010


Hi all:

As a test of the currently available F11 rpms from:
http://fedora.laptop.org/xs/testing/olpc/11/i586/

I've re-created this repo, adding the ability to use @xs-server in a
kickstart file. There is a repo.tar file also, if you wish to have a
local repo at:
http://files.olpcfriends.sunriseroad.net/XS/F11/repo/

This is a network based install, for this stage of testing using a
boot.iso file:

http://files.olpcfriends.sunriseroad.net/XS/F11/XS-AU/iso/boot.iso

This installer will download a kickstart file and setup the need repos.
You will have to do some interactive questions in the installer at this
point, partitioning is one. Once installed and rebooted you will have to
run /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/domain_config <your domain name here>,
then reboot. You should have a single interface XS-server using dhcp to
grab an ip,running on F11. If you need to setup static ip or proxy
setting to use the installer, append asknetwork at the boot prompt.  
Just need a couple sets of eyes to confirm things work as expected.

Next on the list is to revise xs-config, to clean up the network layout
without having to use a kickstart file, and xs-release to reflect where
the repos are. This will allow someone to install the xs-release rpm, to
enable the XS repo, then do a "yum groupinstall xs-server" on any F11
machine, installing the needed rpms to create the XS-server.

Jerry    




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