<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Martin,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I managed to get past the "Line
23 clearpart" error and proceed with a complete XS install.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I used the following process (loosely
based on http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=174916)</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** The commands are done in "root"
mode, mostly from the "/root" directory, unless otherwise specified.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** Took the XS-163 CD and converted
it back to ISO on the beta server</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/root/old163.iso
bs=2k conv=sync,notrunc</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** Make a new directory "ISO"</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">mkdir /root/ISO</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">mount -t iso9660 -o loop old163.iso
ISO</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">ls ISO </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">============</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">isolinux</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">squashfs.img</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">sysroot</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">============</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** get these tools in case you don't
have them</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">modprobe squashfs</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">yum install squashfs-tools</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** Decompress the data to a folder called
"squash-root"</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">unsquashfs ISO/squashfs.img</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">ls squashfs-root</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">===========</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">os.img</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">sysroot</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">============</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** Make a new directory called LIVE</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">mkdir /root/LIVE</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">mount -o loop,rw squashfs-root/os.img
LIVE</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** Remove out all statements related
to "boot loaders", "clear part" or "partitions"</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">cd LIVE/root</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">gedit anaconda-ks.cfg</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">rm -rf anaconda-ks.cfg~</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">cd /root</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** Unmount LIVE so that we can re-compress
into a new "newsq.img" image file</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">umount LIVE</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">mksquashfs squashfs-root newsq.img</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** Make new directory BUILD to hold
the new image of the CD</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** Please note that the "/"
slash after ISO is very important for "rsync" to work properly</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">mkdir BUILD</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">rsync -av --exclude='squashfs.img' ISO/
BUILD</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">cp newsq.img BUILD/</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** You must use the same CD Volume Label.
It can be found with this</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">cat ISO/isolinux/isolinux.cfg | grep
CDLABEL</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">==========</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">( root=CDLABEL=OLPC_XS_163)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">==========</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** This last step must be done from
within the BUILD directory, the last character is a "." period</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** That period (".") represents
all the files in the "current" (BUILD) directory.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">cd BUILD</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">mkisofs -R -D -l -b isolinux/isolinux.bin
-c isolinux/boot.catalog -o /root/new163.iso</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -allow-leading-dots</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
-input-charset default -V "OLPC_XS_163" .</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** That created the "new163.iso"
file. Before we burn to CD, let's make sure it works first.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** The following will start a virtual
server, enough to make sure the ISO file fixes the problem.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">yum install qemu kvm</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">qemu-kvm -m 1024 -cdrom new163.iso</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">** Use cdrecord, wodim or other program
to burn the "new163.iso" into a CD</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">boot from this new CD</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The CD will be interactive, asking you
to either clear out the partition tables, or create</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">a customer configuration, or use the
partitions that are already on the disk.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This worked for me.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks</font>
<br>