Topic: Dual booting SME 5.5

[Dmello]

Hello Folks

I was looking for dualbooting win98+SME 5.5 for R&D purpose. I tried the steps outlined in http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=12549.msg47102#msg47102

first I made a boot disk using boot.img from SME 5.5 CD, then I deleted ks.cfg, copied install.cfg from images/kickstart on SME CD to the floppy and renamed it to ks.cfg..then I deleted the following lines using both vi on Linux and edit on DOS..


# partitioning parameters
zerombr yes
clearpart --all
part /boot --size 10
part / --size 1 --grow
part swap --size 256

# boot loader
lilo --location mbr --linear



all goes well until I select "I Accept" in installation program an execption occurs...

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ?
    intf.run(todo, test = test)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1040, in run
    rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/esmith_text.py", line 676, in __call__
    if todo.upgrade_more_options:
AttributeError: upgrade_more_options

Local variables in innermost frame:
todo:
self:
screen:
test: 0

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'esmith_custom'
p3
I1
sS'autodetect_upgrade_failed'
p4
I0
sS'method'
p5
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p6
(dp7
S'progressWindow'
p8




Would appreciate any hints from gurus.

Thanks and Regards
D'mello

[Jeff C]

I have had great success using VMWare as a development platform without nay issues.

Build as many dev boxes as you want and interoperate between them.  It's commercial software but will save you MUCH time in a development environment.

Take a look at http://www.vmware.com

You'll be interested in the workstation product.

-jeff

[guestHH]

I can not agree more with Jeff's suggestion.

Regards,
guestHH

[robert]

First of all: always use vi or another unix editor, dos/windows editors will lead to problems.
Have a look at this thread:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=14830.msg56841#msg56841
It seems to imply that the old method doesn't work anymore with the new installer. But please verify that this is the case by doublechecking your syslinux.cfg and ks.cfg, making sure that you edit these files with a unix editor.
If the old method really doesn't work, have a look at this message:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=14830.msg56841#msg56841
It describes how you can beat the new installer by editing install.cfg and zapping the edited version onto a CD-ROM. The message mentions that the post-install bit didn't run and that you need to run it manually after installation, but my guess is that that can be attributed to kickstart choking on a windows-edited install.cfg file. If you edit install.cfg in linux, post-install should run.
Another method you could try is to put your ks.cfg on a harddrive and editing syslinux.cfg to point to it with ks=hd://ks.cfg
Have a look at:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-kickstart2-startinginstall.html
I can't say if any of these methods will work with 5.5, but I'm interested in your results, so keep us posted.

Good luck

[Dmello]

Hello Robert

Many Thanx for your response. I was in a hurry to get SME up and running so.. Got the box formated installed SME and then the all the X Libraries + Gnome to get X windows working.

Regards

[Dmello]

Hello Robert

Many Thanx for your response. I was in a hurry to get SME up and running so.. Got the box formated installed SME and then the all the X Libraries + Gnome to get X windows working.

Regards