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[John Bicket]

Hi Bob, 

answers inline.

Bob Keyes [bob at sinister.com] wrote:
>Regarding the roofnet images,
>I note that the latest roofnet releases are for the 2.4.26 kernel, whereas
>the CDs install the 2.4.20rn kernel. I note the i386/RPMS directory which
>has a kernel 2.4.26 RPM. I dropped that and other things which are newer
>in that directory onto the CD, and installed, but ran into problems. First
>is that in /boot the kernel is vmlinuz-2.4.20 where grub.conf is looking
>for vmlinuz-2.4.20-4. I know how to boot up with a live CD, and make a
>symlink in /boot to fix this, but it occurs to me that I am not doing this
>upgrade the correct way, as the new roofnet dist that I dropped onto the
>CD isn't installed for some reason. So, what is the proper way for doing
>this?

We switched kernels. It's kind of a pain to upgrade, as you noted.
There are a few options:
- I just built a new cd, which will install your box again.
(http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~jbicket/roofnet.iso)
- wget pdos/roofnet/dist/install_roofnet.sh
  sudo sh install_roofnet.sh
  sudo /home/roofnet/scripts/upgrade_kernel.pl 4


That might not be answering the question you were asking. Let me know if
it doesn't.


>
>With roofnet-minidist, I note that it installs to /dev/hda1, which is sort
>of strange as that's where my boot disk expects to be. Any reason I can't
>change this? Or modify the script to make in generic?

We would welcome patches that get it right, that just worked on our
hardware.

>
>Also in the minidist, the install script tries to nfs mount a system at
>MIT and copy over the files. I don't have permission to access this. Are
>these any different than the files that are in the remainder of the
>minidist tarball?

ah. it's shouldn't be any different. We will fix that so either it's
always up to date or the nfs is readable from anywhere.

>
>Lastly, I note the use of lilo. Any particular reason for this? I know
>lilo like the back of my hand, which makes it useful, but syslinux is a
>lot smaller so it might be better suited for the 'minidist'.
>
>-Bob
>
>p.s. Is this the right forum for these questions?a

roofnet at pdos is probably better for specific questions like these.



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