Mondo/mindi - the story so far

[Ben Edwards (lists)]

I've had a rather unsuccessful note trying to get Mondo working. I was
trying to get it working partly to do a HowTo for Ubuntu Linux and also
to use it myself. I am running on the Warty Warthog release of Ubuntu
and using the unofficial Mondo Debian packages. This is what I did/got.
Any pointers would be great. i am currently setting up IT at a community
center and would love to use mondo. 

So, this is what I did - added following to sources.list:-

#mondo/mindi

deb
http://www.desknow.com/desknow/directfiles/aleidenfrost/mr-debs-unofficial/packages/sid/ ./

deb-src
http://www.desknow.com/desknow/directfiles/aleidenfrost/mr-debs-unofficial/packages/sid/ ./


Then I did:-


apt-get install libstdc++6 


dpkg -i mindi-partimagehack_0.6.2-3_i386.deb
mindi-kernel_2.4.27-1_i386.deb (from Debian testing)


apt-get install mindi mondo


I then run mindi and got:- 


ben at red ~ $ sudo mindi

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) ?n

Would you like to use LILO (instead of syslinux)

for your boot CD/floppies (y/n) ?n

I shall include Mindi's failsafe kernel, not your kernel, in the boot
disks.

However, you are still running your kernel. If Mindi fails to create
your

disks then it may still be a result of a problem with your kernel.

Analyzing dependency requirements 92% |Where are your LVM-Tools?
Couldn't find /sbin/lvmcreate_initrd

Where are your LVM-Tools? Couldn't find /sbin/lvmiopversion

Where are your LVM-Tools? Couldn't find /sbin/pvdata

Done.

Making complete dependency list Done.

Analyzing your keyboard's configuration.

Adding the following keyboard mapping tables: Done.

Assembling dependency files.....................................Done.

Your mountlist will look like this:-7 directories.

No volume groups found

No volume groups found

No volume groups found

No volume groups found

DEVICE MOUNTPOINT FORMAT SIZE (MB)


Unable to open proc

/dev/hda1 / ext3 9351

/dev/hda5 swap swap 435

No volume groups found

No volume groups found

No volume groups found

No volume groups found

Tarring and zipping the groups........................ Done.

Creating data disk #1...#2...#3...#4...#5...#6...#7... Done.

Making 1722KB boot disk.....................You are running a 2.6
kernel, either completely without ext2

or with ext2 as a module. Good. Using a cpio initrd image.

2487 blocks

... 1722KB boot disk was created OK Done.

Making 2880KB boot disk.....................You are running a 2.6
kernel, either completely without ext2

or with ext2 as a module. Good. Using a cpio initrd image.

4291 blocks

......mkfs.vfat 2.10 (22 Sep 2003)

sh: line 1: mcopy: command not found

... 2880KB boot disk was created OK Done.

In the directory '/root/images/mindi' you will find the images:-

mindi-bootroot.1722.img mindi-bootroot.2880.img mindi-data-1.img
mindi-data-2.img mindi-data-3.img mindi-data-4.img mindi-data-5.img
mindi-data-6.img mindi-data-7.img

Would you like to create boot+data floppy disks now (y/n) ?n

Shall I make a bootable CD image? (y/n) y

NB: Mindi's bootable CD always uses isolinux.

For a bootable CD w/LILO, please use Mondo.

Finished.


Boot and data disk images were created.

ben at red ~ $


I also have managed to create a image running mindi on a 2.4 kernel,
burn on 2.6b kernel and boot the mindi CD OK, however I cant write CDs
from my 2.4 kernel so that is not that useful.


Anyway any advice would be good,

Ben

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