[Roofnet] Re: [Click] CD, flash image

[Sanjit Zubin Biswas]

Bob,
  The LiveCD is identical to the minidist, so you can do a 
custom install by untarring the minidist to the target
root filesystem. 

Sanjit

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:09:26PM -0400, John Bicket wrote:
> 
> 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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