Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:36:42PM -0700, moseley@hank.org wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:02:00AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
>
> > At a BALUG meeting last spring I heard a talk by mondo's inceptor, Hugo
> > Rabson, who took some special time to trash Debian. His beef is with
> > Debian's initrd-enabled kernels which mondo either doesn't handle at all
> > or doesn't handle well. If you have problems, I'd try building &
> > installing a kernel with initrd disabled and see if it helps.
>
> I wanted to go to that meeting (but was out of town) and ask about
> Debian support. I wanted to ask what the specific issues were. I had
> problems with Mondo and on the list there were comments that Debian was
> the problem, even though I had built my kernel from kernel.org source.
>
> Plus, http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/docs/1.6x-howto/kernelsupport.html
> says:
>
> Your kernel must have:
>
> * initrd ramdisk support (built-in)
>
> So it's confusing.
>
> I also asked (also with conflicting suggestions from the Mondo list)
> what exactly was "Virtual memory file system support (built-in)". I was
> told[1] That I needed cramfs, but the docs say that I don't want cramfs.
>
> I wish that page listed the actual kernel parameter required.
>
> > See the Mondo website, http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo
> > They have an active mailing list. Not only do they claim to support
> > Debian 3.0, I just checked out their website and found that the text
> > that used to say something like "Why I hate Debian" has been replaced
> > with a blurb that starts out "I used to badmouth Debian's distro ...
> > However, recent releases are much improved ..." Thanks, Hugo, that
> > really makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
>
> ;)
>
> So have you given it a try lately, Paul?
>
I'm running debian stock kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 . I get error abort when mondoarchive
attempts to create the .iso. Its error message says mkisofs is broken, which I
sincerely doubt, but maybe some feature that I have never needed before, and is
required by mondo, is broken. Maybe.
>
>
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2573399&forum_id=5086
>
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