[gobolinux-users] GoboLinux 013 after install, could not open any console

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 1/16/07, teique <teique at gmail.com> wrote:
> My /dev is empty!!!
>
> disk partition? hda1, I got a 6Gb drive and freed it up to install 013

Ouch. This is *très bizarre*.  I'll take a look into the installer
this week and will try to figure out our Grub problem and this /dev
bug.

> I just want it to stop, I will try google when I get bothered enough XD

Fine.

> I was thinking... If I just copy the whole CD to the HD, will it work?

No, it won't. Our initrd looks specifically for the string "cdrom" on
/proc/ide/*/media.

> I ask this cuz my CD burner is not working well, and as it is too slow,
> I would like to skip the packages copy step and let the system be setup
> normally by installer, then after (or before) I copy the whole
> /Programs/... and perform any SymlinkProgram to clean broken ones AFAIK.

Yes, you can do that. Given that you have your base system installed,
now it's just a matter of copying the remaining packages and
Symlinking them.

> I still need to find the point at installer script to make it skip
> packages copy, I just didnt have time :)

You may want to use something like this:

] mkdir -p /Mount/Loop
] mount -o loop -t squashfs
/Mount/CD-ROM/Packages-List-NonBase.squashfs /Mount/Loop

] cd /Mount/Loop
] cat /dev/null > ~/PackageList
] for i in *; do [ -d /Programs/$i ] || echo $i >> ~/PackageList; done

] cat ~/PackageList; while read i; do InstallPackage --no-dependencies $i; done
] cat ~/PackageList; while read i; do SymlinkProgram $i; done

] umount /Mount/Loop

And then do it again for the remaining squashfs files inside
/Mount/CD-ROM (except for Packages-List-Base.squashfs).

-- 
Lucas
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