Topic: Which Mondo rescue for SME7

[psoren]

Hi,

Can anyone advice me on which Mondo version to use with SME7? I only see Fedora and Red Hat on the Mondo download page, but i don't know which compares to Centos 4.2 from SME7

Per

[mmccarn]

I'm running SME 7 alpha 8.  

I used the SME / Mondo howto at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/thaynes/E-Smith/mondoarchive/install.htm and followed the instructions for SME 6

looking at my notes, I did some funny stuff with "libnewt"  (I think mondo wanted libnewt.so.0.50 but SME came with libnewt.so.0.51.6.  I have no idea if using "ln" as shown below is appropriate or safe)

I  also seem to have installed lzo using yum after adding the "dries" repository to my yum config ( here's a URL on how to add it, but I think I did it manually: http://smeserver.sourceforge.net/sme70/3rdPartyYumSetup)

My notes about Mondo say:

Mondo 2.04 on SME7:
- rpm -Uvh afio-2.4.6-2.i386.rpm
- rpm -Uvh mindi-1.04-1sme60.i586.rpm
- rpm -Uvh  mondo-2.04-1sme60.i586.rpm
- ln -s /var/lib/libnewt.so.0.50 /var/lib/libnewt.so.0.51.6
- yum install lzo (requires 'dries' repository)

I can run Mondo and have several CDs around -- but I haven't had the courage to nuke my system to see if it really works...

[CKConsulting]

Can you explain a little more about what you did with libnewt.so.0.50?
I'm getting the error message below when trying to run mondo on SME7 pre4


mondoarchive: error while loading shared libraries: libnewt.so.0.50: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


I tried " ln -s /var/lib/libnewt.so.0.50 /var/lib/libnewt.so.0.51.6 "

Thanks,
Rick

[mmccarn]

Oops! Obviously I made my notes a few days after setting up Mondo!

libnewt.so is in "/usr/lib", not "/var/lib" as my previous instructions assumed.  The instructions *should* have read:

Mondo 2.04 on SME7:
- rpm -Uvh afio-2.4.6-2.i386.rpm
- rpm -Uvh mindi-1.04-1sme60.i586.rpm
- rpm -Uvh  mondo-2.04-1sme60.i586.rpm
- ln -s /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.50 /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.51.6
- yum install lzo (requires 'dries' repository)

Sorry for the confustion!

- Michael

[CKConsulting]

I think your ln comand was backwards.
Below is what installed, I'm going to test a restore this evening.  I'll report back with my results.


rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/e-smith/6.0/afio-2.4.6-2.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/e-smith/6.0/mindi-1.02-1sme60.i586.rpm
rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/e-smith/6.0/mondo-2.02-1sme60.i586.rpm
ln -s /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.51.6 /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.50


Rick

[CKConsulting]

I updated my SME7pre4 to SMErc1 today with not issues.
Ran Mondo
Used panel to backup to PC
Burned Mondo ISO to CD.

Used Darik's Boot & Nuke to wipe my drive.
Inserted New Mondo Disk, it ran and ended
Reboot
Nothing.......  
It's getting late so I'll research and test more tomorrow.
By the way this is only a test box.

Rick

[mmccarn]

d_gerst has posted "mondoinstall.sh" to automatically download and install the latest version of mondo on a SME 7 system.

There may still be some issues with creating the lvm file systems when restoring.

See the thread at [Contrib] MondoRescue on SME 7 (tested successful)! for details.