[Server-devel] mkusbinstall enhancements

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Wed Feb 18 21:42:08 EST 2009


On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 20:34 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> 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. 
> 
> 
The updates.img file is not needed to do the spin. I'm working on a
fixed initrd.img for 0.5.1 based on my rpm for use with an usbdisk that
uses that updates.img. 



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