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i expected +the plymouth to work better, now that the radeon firmware is present... + + +in any case, next steps: + +><i> - setting fstab correctly +</I> +i set the / first, then /proc; and then the other nfs mount points + +however, after booting, i notice this: + +[ ]# systemctl status systemd-remount-fs.service +systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Kernel File Systems + Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-remount-fs.service; +static) + Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat, 2013-01-05 08:33:13 +UTC; 13min ago + Docs: man:systemd-remount-fs.service(8) + Process: 511 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-remount-fs +(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) + CGroup: name=systemd:/system/systemd-remount-fs.service + +Jan 05 08:33:13 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Remount Root and Kernel File +Systems... +Jan 05 08:33:13 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-remount-fs.service: main process +exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE +Jan 05 08:33:13 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Remount Root and Kernel +File Systems. +Jan 05 08:33:13 localhost systemd[1]: Unit systemd-remount-fs.service entered +failed state + + +no clue as to what i going on... is it because it was mounted rw directly? and +now it's rw too? no idea, it's no script and there's no info about it. + +><i> - set a root password + regular user +</I> +[ ]# chroot /chroot/mga3 passwd +[ ]# chroot /chroot/mga3 useradd foo +[ ]# chroot /chroot/mga3 passwd foo + +><i> - install a dm (kdm) +</I> +after locally starting sshd.service, i login remotely and use the following to +do task-kde4 and still skip some stuff + +originally, it was 2GB and 2000+ packages, with all the skip, i get 1GB and +~800 packages: + +[ ]# urpmi --skip libpulseaudio0,libalsa-plugins-pulseaudio,kde4-irc- +client,phonon-gstreamer,lib64gstreamer1.0-pulse,lib64gstreamer0.10-pulse,gst- +install-plugins-helper,digikam,dragon,system-config-printer,msec-gui,task-kde4- +handbooks,kaccessible,kdegames4,jovie,kamera,kgamma,ksnapshot,kmag,kmouth,kdegraphics- +strigi-analyzer,kmousetool,kruler,nepomuk,kontact,plasma-krunner- +nepomuk,kactivitymanagerd-nepomuk-plugin,kdepim4,cagibi,telepathy-presence- +applet,telepathy-kde-presence-applet,rfkill,wireless-tools,gnome- +keyring,amarok,krfb,kopete,kppp,kget,krdc,kde4-filesharing,kipi-plugins -- +prefer pinentry-qt4,phonon-xine,plasma-applet-kimpanel-backend-ibus task-kde4 + +this took quite a while... i believe that again, i have some sort of weird +slowness, that i've been experiencing since i upgraded the nfs server to +mageia2, will need to check this later. + +rebooting didn't start kdm, but then i didn't expect it. will likely need to +do that with the MCC. + +i did drakconf and selected display manager and start X on startup, then +removed xguest, and rebooted + +><i> - try to do some autoconfiguring that happens during install (i forgot, but +</I>><i> i think a tool somewhere exists in drakxtools) (that should set the +</I>><i> keyboard to azerty too) +</I> +I'm installing MCC completely, so that i can use the MCC to configure all +hardware. (considering the previous step, drakconf is already mostly +installed) + +went to deviceinfo on MCC +then set keyboard on MCC +then set autologin on MCC + +- LCD panel +[ ]# urpmi lcdproc +[ ]# vi /etc/lcdproc/LCDd.conf +- wiimote +[ ]# urpmi cwiid + +i also noticed some weird displaying artefacts, so i also installed kde4- +oxygen-transparent, unsure if it actually helped + +><i> - install plasma-applet-launchbutton +</I> +installed, i copied over my images and settings + +><i> - configure autologin +</I> +used MCC for this + +><i> - use the nfsmounts which have all my media +</I> +fix the /etc/fstab and make the paths + +there is a remote-fs error going on. + +systemctl enable remote-fs.target seemed to work, but the first mount point +fails because lockd isn't started yet. + +><i> - fix the look to what i want and set up multiple launchbuttons which do +</I>><i> the purposes and install the programs +</I> +for me this includes xine-ui, firefox, etc... + +to be done: +><i> - fix xine-ui keymap to work with the wiimote +</I>==> i need to do some settings and then protect the file by marking it readonly +for the regular user as well (even if it's in his own homedir) +><i> - fix to have dvds autoplay +</I>==> i remember i did something for this, but i think i had to build my own +package cause this wasn't in KDE (or not yet/not anymore) +><i> - fix KDE to be suitable for TV and wiimote +</I>==> fonts larger, icons larger, drag treshold larger, single click setting +><i> - find a nice dark background +</I> + +my biggest issues are: +1) it would be very useful for this to have a really generic inird(without +an installer) to start from on the mirrors (in isolinux/alt0/ maybe?) 2) +how the hell does urpmi with --urpmi-root handle dracut? why does it work +like that and not chrooted? +3) why are all these nfs drivers omitted, even though i can see nothing +about this in the config files and directories? (in dracut) +4) when doing dhcp, the network fails when booting causing it to stop booting +5) nfs mount points don't work at boot time +6) cwiid didn't have a startup script (i started to make one, it's not perfect +yet) +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="021127.html">[Mageia-dev] how to NFS+PXE +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="021838.html">[Mageia-dev] how to NFS+PXE +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#21204">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#21204">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#21204">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#21204">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |