https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364831 User ragupta@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364831#c2 --- Comment #2 from RahulKrishna Gupta 2008-02-26 05:49:39 MST --- Created an attachment (id=197148) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=197148) ScreenShot of Console on ALT+F3 while deploying the image -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364831 User ragupta@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364831#c4 --- Comment #4 from RahulKrishna Gupta 2008-02-26 07:19:54 MST --- Should the size be specified in the system config.xml or in oemboot/suse-SLED10-SP1/config.xml I specified "<size unit="M">512</size>" in system image config.xml but it did not work. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364831 User ragupta@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364831#c6 RahulKrishna Gupta changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WORKSFORME | --- Comment #6 from RahulKrishna Gupta 2008-02-26 23:03:27 MST --- I modified this value to 10% and I was able to create a raw image of size < 512 MB. The initial deployment went fine. But now I have hit another problem in the 2nd stage of deployment. In this stage, the size for various partitions are calculated. Here I see the following partition sizes partition1 (kiwiboot) = 31M partition2 (ro) = 376 partition3 (rw) = 101 The total comes to 508 MB which leaves us with only 4 MB. Now the installer tries allocate space for SWAP. It tries to allocate 1008 MB or 50MB whichever is less and falls short by 46 MB. So the image deployment fails in the 2nd stage. The "ro" image size is actually 341 MB but the partition created is 25 MB greater in size. This space is wasted since its a read-only partition. Also, is there a way to control the size of the "rw" partition as well as the SWAP partition. I have defined the partitions in my config.xml but its seems that this is not effective. Here's an extract from my config.xml <deploy blocksize="65464"> <timeout>0</timeout> <partitions device="/dev/hda"> <partition number="1" type="swap" size="30"/> <partition number="2" type="L" size="image" mountpoint="/" target="true"/> <partition number="3" type="L" target="false"/> </partitions> </deploy> -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364831 User ms@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364831#c8 Marcus Schaefer changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #8 from Marcus Schaefer 2008-02-27 03:39:07 MST --- * The small disk code can fail if there is not enough space for the swap partition. The message displayed indicates the "risk" * the deploy section information result in a .config file which is used for PXE network setups only. So not an option for oemboot * The good news are you can influence the partitioning. To do that you need to create the following file: /usr/share/kiwi/image/oemboot/suse-.../root/config.oempartition The contents of this file should be the following in your case: OEM_SWAPSIZE=<number in MB> OEM_WITHOUTHOME=1 Please note an oem image must have a swap partition. That was one of the pre-requirements for this type and I can't change it because we use this type mainly for hardware vendors like Dell HP or Lenovo. * I also recommend that you use a copy of the oemboot image description if you tend to insert a config.oempartition file. reference your own boot image description in your system image config.xml as for example: ...</type> As this type requires a swap sapce of at least 50M we have to live with the possible breakage if the disk is too small. If you have questions to setup the oempartition stuff please let us talk on the list about that Thanks -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.