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salix remote installer
Posted: 27. Apr 2012, 08:05
by fredg
Hi,
Salix-Remote-Installer is a script that will download your choosen Salix ISO, check it, mount it in a tmpfs dir and run the install setup.
So, you don't have to boot the installer (no need to burn a CD, to make a USB stick...).
The main purpose of this script was to easily install Salix on a web server.
If you have a rescue-mode, start it, download the script and run it.
If not, make sure you have at least a free partition, download the script, run it from your running session and choose to install "core".
http://salix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc ... ler/trunk/
You can download it via subversion:
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$ svn co https://salix.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/salix/salix-remote-installer/trunk salix-remote-installer
Please report any issues, comments, patches, ...
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root[salix-remote-installer]# sh salix-remote-installer.sh
RAM size checked (>= 1GB): 978284 KB
RAM size: OK
Please choose the Salix flavor you want to install:
1: Xfce
2: Xfce (64bits)
3: KDE
4: KDE (64bits)
5: LXDE
6: LXDE (64bits)
7: Fluxbox
8: Fluxbox (64bits)
9: Ratpoison
10: Ratpoison (64bits)
11: MATE
12: MATE (64bits)
Pick up a number [1-12]:
Re: salix remote installer
Posted: 27. Apr 2012, 11:29
by gapan
This is awesome! Thank you fredg!
Is it possible to mount an iso that you have already downloaded? I'm going to try this soon.
Re: salix remote installer
Posted: 27. Apr 2012, 12:16
by fredg
This is awesome! Thank you fredg
You're welcome.
And I'm not alone on this, JRD do a good part of the job
Is it possible to mount an iso that you have already downloaded? I'm going to try this soon.
Not for now, the ISO is downloaded in the tmpfs dir.
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Re: salix remote installer
Posted: 27. Apr 2012, 16:06
by djemos
awesome fredg.
amazing
Re: salix remote installer
Posted: 28. Apr 2012, 18:12
by Shador
Nice work. I like the inventive, simple impementation by just involving the complete original installation routine.
Two other installer projects have recently evolved too:
Re: salix remote installer
Posted: 1. Sep 2012, 02:44
by mimosa
I can't access it either way. I'll look for the script on people.salix.org ... hoping the alpha is included in the list!
Re: salix remote installer
Posted: 1. Sep 2012, 07:10
by fredg
Salix projects have moved from SourceForge, new locations are up to date in the wiki:
http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/C ... d_in-house
The one you want:
https://github.com/fredg/salix-remote-installer
hoping the alpha is included in the list!
No, it isn't for now, but you can easily add it yourself
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Re: salix remote installer
Posted: 1. Sep 2012, 10:53
by mimosa
Thanks fredg - done that. Hopefully I'll be running current in 64 bits after breakfast!
Re: salix remote installer
Posted: 1. Sep 2012, 12:21
by mimosa
Actually although the download was fine, then I had trouble:
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Mounting ISO...
cpio: write error: No space left on device
mount: warning: salix seems to be mounted read-only.
mount: mount point proc does not exist
cp: writing `cmdline': No space left on device
cp: failed to extend `cmdline': No space left on device
/usr/local/sbin/salix-remote-installer2.sh: line 301: echo: write error: No space left on device
/usr/local/sbin/salix-remote-installer2.sh: line 305: echo: write error: No space left on device
sed: can't read etc/rc.d/rc.S: No such file or directory
Installation will begin once you press <Enter>.
Select the installation from a pre-mounted dir and specify /salix
directory..
(salix-remote-installer2.sh is the version altered to include current.)
Here I just pressed enter. Looking at the script ('read JUNK'), that seems to have
been correct, though I hesitated. Maybe that last line of instructions would be clearer if
it said something like:
Then once the installer has started, select to install from a pre-mounted dir
and specify "/salix".
Otherwise the user might think they have to do that now somehow. When I
pressed enter:
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chroot: failed to run command `/etc/rc.d/rc.S': No such file or directory
chroot: failed to run command `/sbin/umount': Exec format error
umount: sys: not found
umount: /proc: device is busy.
(In some cases useful info about processes that use
the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
Re: salix remote installer
Posted: 1. Sep 2012, 16:32
by JRD
cpio: write error: No space left on device
Seems to be cleary understable. The "device" could here be RAM, so maybe you do not have enougth RAM.