Creating a serial install CD

Creating a serial install CD

[Johnnie Peters]

I am trying to create a R4 install set that will install with a serial
console.  I mounted the
ramdisk, changed the link for the console, unmounted it and reziped it.
I then built a new
zImage.initrd and dd'ed it to a floppy.  I can successfully boot and use
this to install from a
serial port.

The next step is to modify the R4 CD to correctly set /dev/console and
/etc/inittab.  I seem
to have done the initscripts rpm correctly but the dev rpm fails to
install and all I get is script
failed.  On a system I currently have running I cd to the
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS directory and
do "rpm -ihv --force dev-2.5.4.1b.ppc.rpm" and it runs fine.  I have
verified that it has
installed the /etc/inittab that I have changed.

I did a sum -r on this file and the file where I have the files from the
CD.

What do I need to do to get the install to use the new file?  Is there a
check sum file somewhere
or something like that I need to change?  Getting this working will be a
great benefit to
be as I will no longer need to remove a disk from a VME system hook it
to a Utah or
Blackhawk where I have VGA monitors.

Thanks for any help

Johnnie




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Re: Creating a serial install CD

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Johnnie Peters wrote:

> 
> I am trying to create a R4 install set that will install with a serial
> console.  I mounted the
> ramdisk, changed the link for the console, unmounted it and reziped it.
> I then built a new
> zImage.initrd and dd'ed it to a floppy.  I can successfully boot and use
> this to install from a
> serial port.
> 
> The next step is to modify the R4 CD to correctly set /dev/console and
> /etc/inittab.  I seem
> to have done the initscripts rpm correctly but the dev rpm fails to
> install and all I get is script
> failed.  On a system I currently have running I cd to the
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS directory and
> do "rpm -ihv --force dev-2.5.4.1b.ppc.rpm" and it runs fine.  I have
> verified that it has
> installed the /etc/inittab that I have changed.

Did you run 'genhdlist' ? ( On Intel RH, it's in
misc/src/install/genhdlist ) I don't know where it is on Linuxppc R4.

Btw, what did you set /dev/console to? I'm going to try and set up a CD
based on Glibc-2.1 and recent kernels which have better support for the
MTX and MVME boards in a couple of weeks.

> I did a sum -r on this file and the file where I have the files from the
> CD.
> 
> What do I need to do to get the install to use the new file?  Is there a
> check sum file somewhere
> or something like that I need to change?  Getting this working will be a
> great benefit to
> be as I will no longer need to remove a disk from a VME system hook it
> to a Utah or
> Blackhawk where I have VGA monitors.
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> Johnnie

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