On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Mark Nelson wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:28:49 +0000
> Hi Lawrie
>
> I'm glad to know that it's just not me, if you get a solution can you
> let me know. Are you going to the GridPP meeting in Edinburgh?
A couple more things to try and catch the error.
With the install disk there is an option for a step by step install.
If you run this are there any errors earlier before the fatal one,
in particular from
/etc/obj/fstab preparedisks /root
and
/etc/obj/fstab install /root
It is the first of these that is meant to actually create the
/var/obj/conf/fstab/fstab.hda file that is apparently missing.
The second one uses this file to actually do the partitioning.
Do you have any existing partitions on the disk? LCFG or rather
the partition utility contained within only copes with primary partitions.
If you have any then delete these.
Just to add some information as well. The root over NFS is used but
then a ram disk is also created and the /var on NFS is rsync'ed to the ram
disk before being remounted as var. This is how /var/obj/conf/fstab/
is now able to become writable. Maybe it is the creation of the ram disk that
is failing and /var is not writable. Try touching a file in this area once
the install fails.
Steve
>
> Mark.
>
> Lawrence Lowe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I'm having similar problems at Birmingham as Mark at Durham with the
> > installation: release 2.1.8, same symptoms relating to fstab.
> >
> > cp: cannot create regular file /root//var/obj/conf/fstab/fstab.hda:
> > no
> > such file or directory
> > ...
> > LCFG object fstab: Missing fstab template for hda
> > (/var/obj/conf/fstab/fstab.hda)
> > FAILED
> >
> > I'll attach my site config in case it's the cause of the problems.
> >
> > Lawrie.
> >
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