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install RH5.2 ONTO NFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Vicherek)
Sun Nov 15 01:17:19 1998
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 01:16:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Jan Vicherek <post-only@ied.com>
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Heyya,
I'm trying to install RH5.2 with CD being mounted via NFS and the root
filesystem is on NFS too !
Please tell me the steps. When I specify in the partition screen that
root "/" is on "nfsroothost:/tftpboot/rh52", it says "You must assign a
root (/) partition to a Linux native partition (ext2)."
Further, why does the installation process *REQUIRE* on my 1/4GB RAM
machine to have a swap partition ?! Is that a bug, or am I missing a
point ?
PLEASE somebody tell me how to install ONTO nfs !
Thanx,
Jan
PS : I do assume that there is a way to install it onto NFS, as I don't
believe that RedHat would be as narrow-minded as to deny users to do NFS
installations.
PS 2 : I've just spent an hour or so tweaking RH5.2 install to stop caring
whether I'm installing onto NFS or not, and whether I have swap or not.
BUT: when I get to install the packages, the doInstall funtion is called
with these params : rootPath = "/mnt", netSharedPath = "/", upgrade = 0.
the /var/lib/rpm directory got created, but no packages.rpm inside.
shoot shoot shoot ! I got it : I've been linking install2 against an old
version of librpm.a !!!! Doh ! OK, now I got the whole thing working.
OK, here is the patch (It's also attached, but I'm not sure whether the
mailing lists archives handle attachments) :
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diff -ru old_install/fsedit.c install/fsedit.c
--- old_install/fsedit.c Wed Oct 14 12:27:00 1998
+++ install/fsedit.c Sat Nov 14 23:23:35 1998
@@ -1836,12 +1836,12 @@
*writeChanges = 1;
/* make sure '/' is defined */
status = fdiskIndexPartitionSpec(spec, "/", &i);
- if (!status)
+ /*if (!status)
if (spec->entry[i].partition.type.current !=
LINUX_NATIVE_PARTITION ||
spec->entry[i].status == REQUEST_DENIED)
- status = 1;
-
+ */
+ status = 0;
if (status) {
newtWinMessage(_("No Root Partition"), _("Ok"),
_("You must assign a root (/) "
@@ -1852,6 +1852,7 @@
}
/* make sure some swapspace is defined */
+ /* we don't *need* swap
status = 1;
for (i=0; i < spec->num; i++)
if (spec->entry[i].partition.type.current ==
@@ -1867,7 +1868,7 @@
"partition "
"for the install to proceed."));
continue;
- }
+ } */
}
/* make sure there are no unallocated partitions */
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