Bug 114505

Summary: Mindi package doesn't work
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Alexey Eremenko <al4321>
Component: ConsoleAppsAssignee: Lars Vogdt <lars.vogdt>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: mike
Version: Beta 3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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Description Alexey Eremenko 2005-08-31 18:06:57 UTC
Mindi package doesn't work, possibly because of absent mindi-kernel. However  
Mindi RPM doesn't require that on installation, it just refuses to run 
properly and gives the errors like this one:  
  
 
linux:~ # mindi 
afio not found... mindi doesn't need afio but Mondo does... Be aware... 
 
Mindi Linux mini-distro generator v1.04 by Hugo Rabson 
Latest Mindi is available from http://www.mondorescue.org 
BusyBox sources are available from http://www.busybox.net 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
Do you want to use your own kernel to build the boot disk (y/n) ?y 
Would you like to use LILO (instead of syslinux) 
for your boot CD/floppies (y/n) ?n 
Analyzing dependency requirements                               Done. 
Making complete dependency list                                 100%    \tr: 
extra operand `-s' 
Try `tr --help' for more information. 
                                                                Done. 
Analyzing your keyboard's configuration. 
Adding the following keyboard mapping tables: cz-lat2-us.map.gz Done. 
Assembling dependency files................                     Done. 
The files have been subdivided into 2 directories.                              
Your mountlist will look like this:- 
Cannot find lvmdiskscan. Are you sure you're using LVM? 
        DEVICE          MOUNTPOINT      FORMAT          SIZE (MB) 
        /dev/hdd11      /               reiserfs          50187 
        /dev/hdd1       /windows/C      vfat               2000 
        /dev/hdd5       /windows/D      ntfs              12001 
        /dev/hdd6       /windows/E      vfat              31000 
        /dev/hdd7       /windows/F      vfat              31000 
        /dev/hdd8       /windows/G      vfat              31000 
        /dev/hdd9       /windows/H      ntfs              24058 
        /dev/hdd12      swap            swap               2439 
 
Unable to open proc 
 
Unable to open sysfs 
 
Unable to open usbfs 
 
Unable to open devpts 
 
Unable to open /dev/hdc 
Cannot find lvmdiskscan. Are you sure you're using LVM? 
Tarring and zipping the groups.........                         Done. 
Creating data disk #1...#2...                                   Done. 
Making 1722KB boot disk...........................1440+0 records in 
1440+0 records out 
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 0.017463 seconds, 84.4 MB/s 
mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) 
cp: writing `vmlinuz': No space left on device 
Failed to copy /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13-rc6-git13-4-default to ramdisk 
Warning - failed to create 1.44MB boot/root floppies 
Warning! Failed to create 1.72MB boot image. Please reduce your kernel's size 
if you want to make a 1.72MB floppy floppy disk. 
Making 2880KB boot disk...........................mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005) 
... 1440KB boot+root disks were created OK                      Done. 
In the directory '/root/images/mindi' you will find the images:- 
   mindi-data-1.img    mindi-data-2.img 
Would you like to create boot+data floppy disks now (y/n) ?y 
WARNING! THIS WILL ERASE YOUR FLOPPY DISKS. 
About to write . Please press ENTER. 
Formatting disk...Fatal error. Cannot format boot/root disk - is your Linux 
distro broken? 
 
tar: -f-: Cannot stat: No such file or directory 
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors 
Please e-mail a copy of /tmp/mindi.err.13466.tgz to the mailing list. 
See http://www.mondorescue.org for more information. 
WE CANNOT HELP unless you enclose that file. 
linux:~ #
Comment 1 Lars Vogdt 2005-08-31 19:20:10 UTC
Seems that the mindi-kernel package is broken and not on the CD :-(
Comment 2 Lars Vogdt 2005-09-01 14:43:10 UTC
*** Bug 114722 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-11-18 13:11:12 UTC
The output above shows only that the creation of the floppy disk failed for whatever reason.
Does it work for you if you skip the floppy creation and just create an ISO image?
Comment 4 Lars Vogdt 2005-11-30 10:11:37 UTC
We've created new rpms for mondo and mindi.
You can find them on ftp.suse.com/pub/people/lrupp/i386/10.0/suse/

Please test...
Comment 5 Lars Vogdt 2005-12-20 09:05:28 UTC
Updated package is released via YOU. No answer from customer since latest post _> fixed.