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  • From: Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz>
  • To: "sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org" <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] proxy email from flux_control about test6 iso
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:09:01 +0100


> I downloaded iso and checked md5 at the 09:45 (GMT+1) and it was OK.
> My students burned it and install it. All were SUCCESSFUL, of course
> with my help. :-)
> In fact one of them burned iso image as a file on cd and was wondering
> why he couldn't boot form cd. :-)
> Now I will test it more and I will inform you.
>

My info / notes:
1)
During ISO boot there are 2 red failures. Of cource no problem, only not
fitting to stable iso:
modutils: failure
FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.27.10-SMGL-iso/modules.dep.temp
for writing: Read-only file system
network: failure
network: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"

Btw, after installation there is still missing /etc/network/interfaces.
What is the problem with file:
-
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
-
Users will be happy and admins can change it.

2)
In disk-partition step, still there is a TODO info "TODO: describe how
to find that out".
Good idea to change it for example to"
Your disk is probably address by /dev/hda or /dev/sda.
See output of dmesg. You can run "dmesg | grep -e DISK -e disk".

3)
I tried ext4 fs support. We have mkfs.ext4 on the iso so we can format
fs. Problem is that our mount doesn't support ext4 yet. :-(

4)
I would suggest to use separate partition for sources, so if you
reinstall system you still can have sources.
mkdir -p /mnt/root/var/spool/sorcery
mount -t ...

5) smgl-spells
It is strange if gcc or bzip2 spells aren't choosen and openssl or g++
are choosen by default.
Seems gcc is installed from system.tar.bz2 so it is installed even if it
is not choosen.
It would be fine if smgl-spells show only "optional" spells and not
spells included in system.tar.bz2.

6) smgl-enchant
In install step you write about "enchant -h". It is smgl-enchant now so
you should change it to "smgl-enchant -h".

7) reboot
Seems you really don't want to mention just "reboot" or "ctrl-alt-del".
All umount aren't really necessary.

8) hostname
It would be fine you mention to edit /etc/hostname during installation.

9) ping
After installation I was missing ping command. Good idea to have it
during setting of network, troubleshooting. Maybe it is in iso cache so
could choose netkit-ping.

10) smgl-setup
It would be fine to have smgl-setup man page on install iso / installed
system.


Now I run "scribe add stable-rc; sorcery rebuild".

--
Ladislav Hagara







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