Trying the to install on the OQO, and hitting up against one problem I see a lot in the comments about installing various distros on it. That is its screen size.
So I could install using the text installation except...
What is the command line for text install and askmethod so I can use HTTP to access my local repo? What do I add to 'linux askmethod'? And if I go the text install route, can I do all of my custom disk partitioning? I seem to recall from when I fell intotext install on a system without enough memory, that I could not work with LVM in text mode.
Or
Can I set the video size in that 'linux askmethod' line? Here is a sample xorg.conf I have found:
Section "Device" Identifier "Silicon Motion, Inc. SM720 Lynx3DM" Driver "vesa" # Driver "siliconmotion" # need to modify the driver first before using BusID "PCI:0:6:0" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" Option "DPMS" Modeline "800x480" 40 800 864 928 1088 480 481 484 509 +HSync EndSection
IF I have to go with a custom kickstart file from diskette (Drive a:), I suppose I could put the hardware together for it. I would need a powered USB hub (around here somewhere), my USB diskette drive, along with the USB CDrom....
How best to proceed?
Oh, for my custom disk partitioning, besides the ext3 partition for /boot, I create a separate swap partition of memory x 2 (=2Gb). Then the LVM partition has two ext3 partitions, one for / around 12Gb, and the other for /home as the rest. The drive is a 60Gb drive, so I might make / bigger:
ext3 /boot 100mb swap 2Gb LVM Rest of drive (to 512byte multiple) ext3 / 12Gb ext3 /home rest of LVM
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
How best to proceed?
I assume this computer has a network connection? Put the kickstart config on a http server.
Though I've long had problems with LVM and kickstart, it often causes anaconda to crash (going back at least as far as RHEL 3). Maybe 5.x is better in this regard.
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nate wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
How best to proceed?
I assume this computer has a network connection? Put the kickstart config on a http server.
Though I've long had problems with LVM and kickstart, it often causes anaconda to crash (going back at least as far as RHEL 3). Maybe 5.x is better in this regard.
Sounds good. Afterall, I am using the network card with the askmethod to select http to get to my local repo install of running through 6 CDs.
But this begs 2 questions:
How to access the kickstart via http (and where to put it, somewhere in the /centos/5/os/i386 structure?).
and
What to put into the kickstart to get it to finish in text mode? And how to set the xorg.conf size? THis will be a lot of reading up on kickstart. Been a couple of years since I did my own kickstart. I did figure out how to setup my drive info...
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
How to access the kickstart via http (and where to put it, somewhere in the /centos/5/os/i386 structure?).
If your asking how to access the kickstart config via http? Put ks=http://<IP address>/<path to config> as a kernel parameter
What to put into the kickstart to get it to finish in text mode? And how to set the xorg.conf size? THis will be a lot of reading up on kickstart. Been a couple of years since I did my own kickstart. I did figure out how to setup my drive info...
put the word 'text' in the kickstart config for text mode. X will attempt to configure automatically. There is an easy to understand manual for Red Hat administration that details the various kickstart options. None of the systems I kickstart run X11 so I don't have any good ideas off the top of my head if anaconda doesn't auto configure your resolution correctly.
For RHEL5/CentOS 5: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Gui...
Sample config(my most advanced and versatile to date): http://portal.aphroland.org/~aphro/centos_5_1_32.cfg
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