[SM-Users] chrooting/NFS-ing SMGL install

Thomas Orgis thomas-forum at orgis.org
Wed Oct 18 20:07:41 EDT 2006


Am Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:37:31 -0700
schrieb Eric Sandall <eric at sandall.us>: 

> We have two documents which cover this:
> http://wiki.sourcemage.org/install_using_chroot_and_rsync and
> http://wiki.sourcemage.org/install_using_chroot. Keep in mind that
> neither of these methods are "officially" supported, but people have
> installed using them.

I just did an install on a server that I can only reach via ssh (and the possibility to run a net-booted rescue system via web frontend). I tried starting with an ISO like outlined on these resources, but that didn't work out (not totally sure why exactly).
Then I spotted a nice small chroot tarball right besides the isos for x86, extracted that one on my to-be root partition, did the mount --rbind /dev and proc / sysfs mounts, copied /etc/resolv.conf, made /var/spool/sorcery a directory (for some reason it wasn't).
Then after chrooting into it, I could start updating and customizing this system (scribe add stable-rc, cast smgl-archspecs, sorcery (configure), sorcery -u, sorcery -r ...).
Installing a kernel and bootloader ... and done, basically.

I didn't see a similar chroot tarball for ppc but I guess it would be no big deal for an existing ppc users to provide one.
The benefits of using the iso image for chrooting are questioned when not actually booting from it. You have to be careful that the install script doesn't trigger a reboot itself, for example.
Also, in my case, I put the iso file onto the very same partition that should become root of the new smgl system. One has to be careful with the disk setup of the installer in that case...

At last, there is another possibility: Install sorcery in your debian system and start casting a chroot and future root filesystem, like I started to describe in

http://wiki.sourcemage.org/PossessGuide

But that method is probably the most difficult and is most likely not the best one for a newbie to start with (since there can be effects with your host system).
So I mentioned it just for completeness...

If you have the iso image on a source different from your root partition and just watch out for the reboot trigger, that method is the one to do, I presume.


Alrighty then,

Thomas.
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