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<H1 CLASS="western"><A NAME="Problems_and_Issues"></A>Problems and
Issues</H1>
<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.15in">As with all things,
the Automated Installation facility has its problems. This section
will attempt to identify them and illustrate, if possible, work a
rounds for them.</P>
<H2 CLASS="western"><A NAME="General_Issues"></A>General Issues</H2>
<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.15in">These problems and
issues are common to all releases of the current distributions'
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<P CLASS="western"><B>1.</B></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0in"><B>Missing RAID and
LVM definitions.</B></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in">Unfortunately when
the <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">auto_inst.cfg</FONT> file is
generated, the RAID and LVM declarations are <B>NOT</B>. You will
have to manually add them your self.</P>
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<P CLASS="western"><B>2.</B></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0in"><B>Enabling <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">passno</FONT>,
<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">freq</FONT> and <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">toFormatCheck</FONT>
with <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">partitions</FONT></B>.</P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in">To enable these
features requires that you make a modification to the Stage2 perl
scripts as follows:</P>
<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in">a) Uncompress the
file using: <FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt"><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">gunzip
Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/fsedit.pm.gz</FONT></FONT></P>
<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in">b) Adjust the lines
(about 481) <B>from</B>:</P>
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suggest_part {</FONT></P>
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<P CLASS="closecode-western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.6in"><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">...</FONT></P>
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<P CLASS="closecode-western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.6in"><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">foreach
('options', 'lv_name', 'encrypt_key') {</FONT></P>
<P CLASS="closecode-western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.8in"><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">$part->{$_}
= $best->{$_} if $best->{$_};</FONT></P>
<P CLASS="closecode-western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.6in"><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">}</FONT></P>
<P CLASS="closecode-western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.6in"><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">1;</FONT></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in"><B>to</B>:</P>
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suggest_part {</FONT></P>
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<P CLASS="closecode-western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.6in"><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">...</FONT></P>
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<P CLASS="closecode-western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.6in"><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">foreach
('options', 'lv_name', 'encrypt_key',<B> 'passno', 'freq',
'toFormatCheck'</B>) {</FONT></P>
<P CLASS="closecode-western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.8in"><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">$part->{$_}
= $best->{$_} if <B>exists</B> $best->{$_};</FONT></P>
<P CLASS="closecode-western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.6in"><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">}</FONT></P>
<P CLASS="closecode-western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.6in"><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">1;</FONT></P>
<P CLASS="closecode-western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.4in"><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">}</FONT></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in">c) Compress the
file using: <FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt"><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">gzip
Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/perl-install/fsedit.pm.gz</FONT></FONT></P>
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<H2 CLASS="western" STYLE="page-break-before: always"><A NAME="Community_Release_Issues"></A>
Community Release Issues</H2>
<P CLASS="western">These ones are specific to the Community Release.</P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0in"><B>Usability Problems
with <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">replay*.img</FONT> files.</B></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in"><B>CD-ROM Installs</B>:
the <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">replay_install.img</FONT>'s
file <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">syslinux.cfg</FONT> has the
<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">automatic=method:disk</FONT> on
the <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">append</FONT> line twice,
usable but not correct. Also, you can only install from the first
CD.</P>
<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in"><B>GRUB</B>: the
<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">replay_install.img</FONT> file is
usable, although it has an empty <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">syslinux.cfg</FONT>
file that is not used.</P>
<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in"><B>Network</B>: the
<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">replay_install.img</FONT> file is
usable, but the <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">syslinux.cfg</FONT>
file it contains does not have any of the network information that
it should. The <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">replay_install_drivers.img</FONT>
file is usable, but it has an empty <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">syslinux.cfg</FONT>
file.</P>
<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in">You can use these
images, but you might want to correct them, before using, to
ensure nothing odd occurs. Or you can use the procedures in
<A HREF="section7.html#Scratch_Built_Auto_Install_Diskette"><B><I>Scratch Built
Auto Install Diskette</I></B></A> to to create your own.</P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in">You may also find
that the floppy disk(s) that you generated during the manual
install exhibit similar problems.</P>
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<H2 CLASS="western"><A NAME="Final_Release_Issues"></A>Final Release
Issues</H2>
<P CLASS="western">These ones are specific to the Final Release.</P>
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<H2 CLASS="western"><A NAME="Cooker_Issues"></A>Cooker Issues</H2>
<P CLASS="western">These ones are here because cooker is where it all
starts. Unfortunately, these issues are only valid at the time this
document is released, and they may already be resolved by the time
you read this.</P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0in"><B>Services missing
from the auto_inst.cfg file. (Community Release)</B></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in">To get the
<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">'services' => ...</FONT>
included in the generated configuration file (on floppy, in the
images, or <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">/root/drakx/auto_inst.cfg.pl</FONT>),
you have to click on the Configure button associated with
Configure Services on the Summary screen during the initial GUI
installation. Alternately, you can look in the directory
<FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">/etc/rc.d/rc5.d</FONT> and create
the entry by examining the files listed with <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">“S??<name
of service>”</FONT> where <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace"><name
of service></FONT> also appears in the <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">/etc/rc.d/init.d</FONT>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0in"><B>Generated Replay /
Automated Floppy have error. (Cooker after the Community Release)</B></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in">If you are using the
Grub Hard Disk method to auto install, you will find that the
generated floppy and the <BR><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">/root/drakx/replay_install.img</FONT>
have a error in the <FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">menu.lst</FONT>
file.</P>
<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in">It contains:</P>
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<FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">kernel
/cooker/isolinux/alt0/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=128000 </FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">root=/dev/ram3 acpi=ht vga=788
automatic=method:disk </FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">kickstart=floppy
automatic=met:disk,dis:hde,par:hde7,dir:/cooker,</FONT></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-left: 0.2in">and should be:</P>
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<FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">kernel
/cooker/isolinux/alt0/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=128000 </FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">root=/dev/ram3 acpi=ht vga=788
kickstart=floppy </FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">automatic=met:disk,dis:hde,par:hde7,dir:/cooker,</FONT></P>
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