[Server-devel] mkusbinstall enhancements

[Jerry Vonau]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 15:06 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jerry <jerry at vonau.ca> wrote:
> > User impression doesn't count? ;-) Kind of throws fully automated
> > installs out the window. To support installs to CF or from the network,
> > anaconda needs to be patched for F9, is installing to a XO on hold? or
> > are you looking to move to F10?
> 
> It counts, and of course it matters. And very happy that you're
> helping me with it. Are the anaconda RPMs with the added sleep good
> for me to grab?
> 

Should be, I tested what was there a few time on a XO. First time ran
though to completion, but I've yet to write the part to create the
olpc.fth file in %post in the ks.cfg. The rest blew up with some weird
kernel error, think my CF card might be the issue or there is some
general issue with the kernel driver for mmc, but the loader part worked
fine. Single test on desktop ran as expected. You would need to add the
rpm to a repo, and to be safe, I'd install it on the build host also. 


> I'm looking to skip F10, hoping that F11 will be more worthwhile --
> almost none of our probs are solved in F10, so it's pointless rebase
> churn...
> 
> > That would depend on if there is any movement by fedora on official
> > supporting of installs from usb... ;-)
> >
> > I wonder how many other people are using mkusbinstall outside of us?
> 
> Ahh...
> 
> > On a side note unless you use the other features of mkslim, the need
> > for mkslim might go away for F11.
> 
> Yes, seen noise about that in the anaconda list. Feather up you cap -
> after much pushback they realised what a big fat waste some stuff in
> the images dir is.
> 

Or they just hit the size limit on a DVD, and now it matters ;-)

Jerry