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The only thing that I've noticed that hasn't been noted on the list is disc ordering. The first time that the SGI disc is asked for it is referred to Disc 6. After it's complete Disc 2 is asked for, putting in Disc 2 gets you an error that you've inserted the wrong SGI XFS cd. Clicking ok ejects the disc and Disc 1 is requested. I greatly appreciate the work done on the installer. Thank you very much. It would not suprise me if these things were just not fixed as it's not really your job to supply RedHat specific installers, it's RedHat's. If you choose to keep the current installer though, I'd suggest putting a big list of warnings in a README about the known problems. Anyway, thank you again. #############################################
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Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent by: linux-xfs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
10/10/2002 09:22 PM ZE2
To: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: 1.2 PreRelease avaliable
First of all thanks for spinning a RedHat installer, and also that fast!
Good news:
+ The supplied kernel sources seem to work very well.
+ The installer does work when installing a minimal system. Having a bootable
system with XFS-fs and ssh is already very helpfull. :)
Bugs:
- The installer will not work if you try to install "custom->everything".
After having completed 268 of 1468 packages (754MB of 4691MB) the installer
chokes on anaconda:
> There was an error installing anaconda-8.0-XFS_1. This can
> indicate media failure, lack of disk space, and/or hardware
> problems. This is a fatal error and your install will be aborted.
> Please verify your media and try your install again.
>
> Press the OK button to reboot your system.
anaconda is 9.276 KBytes and I switched to the shell console and verified
that all partitions had enough space left (smallest was /boot and had 45M).
- I also tried a network install for XFS "custom->everything" which aborted in
a python exception of anaconda (something about inappropriate numers of
arguments passed - sorry I didn't dump the error to a diskette).
Note that I did checked the media to be OK and also confirmed this behaviour
on another station. Furthermore the RedHat vanilla installer works on those
machines with "custom->everything",
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:15:19PM -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> Ok so we are making progress toward actually getting a 1.2 release
> ready.
> ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.2pre1/
>
> Currently the for this pre-release only a single patch'em all patch is
> available. The command are split up as usual into rpm's src.rpm's and
> tar balls.
>
> We are still chasing several bugs in this code base, they are very
> obscure end case problems so most people won't hit them.
>
> Please pound on, run over, throw things etc and report problems, success
> weather conditions.
>
> The installer iso is also available. I will install a system that looks
> and feels similar to a RedHat (tm) 8.0 system.
> NOTE NOTE NOTE
> This is probably going to be the only spin of the installer iso,
> as the amount of effort is not trivial.
>
> A few known problems exist and will probably not be fixed unless
> somebody wants to send in a fix.
> 1) Grud does not install correctly during the install, anybody
> wishing to use grub should select lilo initially for the boot loader
> and them install grub once the system is up.
>
> 2) Upgrades on system with labels in the fstab do not work, this is
> problem with anaconda and is not easily fixed. The workaround for this
> is to change the fstab to contain the actual device names before
> attempting the upgrade.
>
> 3) The text version of the installer is not able to do partitioning.
> This is probably a trivial bug in anaconda but we just don't have time
> to look at it.
>
> -Russell Cattelan
>
>
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