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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