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diff --git a/doc/src/uml-rhroot.html b/doc/src/uml-rhroot.html deleted file mode 100644 index ca05a2073..000000000 --- a/doc/src/uml-rhroot.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,116 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> -<HTML> - <HEAD> - <TITLE>Building a RedHat root image</TITLE> - <!-- Created by: Michael Richardson, 22-Nov-2001 --> - <!-- Changed by: Michael Richardson, 22-Nov-2001 --> - - - </HEAD> - <BODY> - <H1>Building a RedHat root image</H1> - -<P> -The image required to use User-Mode-Linux is just a normal set of executables. -These can be extracted from a RedHat distribution using the following proceedure. -</P> - -<P> -There is a script in testing/utils called <CODE>uml-rhroot.sh</CODE>. It takes -two arguments: -<UL> -<LI> a directory in which to put resulting directory tree. -<LI> a directory tree containing the RedHat distribution RPMs. This may be - in one of three forms: -<UL> -<LI> a directory containing the directories "disc1" and "disc2". These - could be ISO images that are mounted loopback via, for instance: -<PRE> -<CODE> -mkdir -p /distros/redhat/7.2/disc1 /distros/redhat/7.2/disc1 -mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro /distros/redhat/7.2/enigma-i386-disc1.iso /distros/redhat/7.2/disc1 -mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro /distros/redhat/7.2/enigma-i386-disc2.iso /distros/redhat/7.2/disc2 -</CODE> -</PRE> -or even two real CDroms mounted somewhere. In the example above, use "/distros/redhat/7.2" as the distribution directory. -</LI> -<LI> a directory containing a "merged" disc1 and disc2 as suggested by RedHat in <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/install-guide/s1-install-network.html#S2-INSTALL-SETUPSERVER">http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/install-guide/s1-install-network.html under "Setting up the Server"</A>. -<LI> a directory containing all the required RPMs. (See <A HREF="uml-rhroot-list7.2.txt">list of RPMs</A>)</LI> -</UL> -</UL> -</P> - -<P>The unpacked distribution will take approximately 133Mb. You will - want to locate this on the same partition as your intended root - trees for your User-Mode-Linux's as this will permit hard links to - be used, saving disk space. -</P> - -<P> - Because the RPM command used uses the chroot(2) system call and - needs to change ownership of the files that it creates, it must be - run as root. Afterward, you should chown the entire directory to the - userid that you will be using for testing (i.e. probably - yours). It should eventually suffices to make sure that you can read - every file. -</P> - -<P> -You should be able to chroot to this directory and run programs. If -you can not at least run ls, then there is a problem. -</P> -<P> -Expect a couple of errors about install-info. -</P> - -<P> -An example: -<PRE> -<CODE> -Script started on Thu Nov 22 15:51:15 2001 -cassidy:/c2/user-mode-linux# df -Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on -/dev/hda1 3844408 1673528 1975584 46% / -/dev/hda3 12495048 1823404 10036884 16% /home -/dev/hdc1 10325748 805056 8996172 9% /c1 -/dev/hdc2 10325780 4815160 4986100 50% /c2 -/dev/hdc3 10325780 2972480 6828780 31% /c3 -/dev/hdc4 7495084 3059640 4054704 44% /c4 -/distros/redhat/7.2/enigma-i386-disc1.iso - 662072 662072 0 100% /distros/redhat/7.2/disc1 -/distros/redhat/7.2/enigma-i386-disc2.iso - 653740 653740 0 100% /distros/redhat/7.2/disc2 -cassidy:/c2/user-mode-linux# /c2/freeswan/sandbox-main/testing/utils/uml-rhroot.sh -Usage: /c2/freeswan/sandbox-main/testing/utils/uml-rhroot.sh rootdir cdimagedir -cassidy:/c2/user-mode-linux# /c2/freeswan/sandbox-main/testing/utils/uml-rhroot.sh /c2/user-mode-linux/rpm-root/root /distros/redhat/7.2 -Assuming RH disc1 at /distros/redhat/7.2/disc1/RedHat/RPMS - and disc2 at /distros/redhat/7.2/disc2/RedHat/RPMS -/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.99149: /sbin/install-info: No such file or directory -error: execution of %post scriptlet from textutils-2.0.14-2 failed, exit status 127 -cat: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory -warning: /var/lib/rpm/Basenames created as /var/lib/rpm/Basenames.rpmnew -warning: /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname created as /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname.rpmnew -warning: /var/lib/rpm/Group created as /var/lib/rpm/Group.rpmnew -warning: /var/lib/rpm/Name created as /var/lib/rpm/Name.rpmnew -warning: /var/lib/rpm/Packages created as /var/lib/rpm/Packages.rpmnew -warning: /var/lib/rpm/Providename created as /var/lib/rpm/Providename.rpmnew -warning: /var/lib/rpm/Requirename created as /var/lib/rpm/Requirename.rpmnew -warning: /var/lib/rpm/Triggername created as /var/lib/rpm/Triggername.rpmnew -You should now chown it to yourself. -cassidy:/c2/user-mode-linux# chown -R mcr rpm-root/root -cassidy:/c2/user-mode-linux# ls rpm-root/root -bin dev home lib opt root tmp var -boot etc initrd mnt proc sbin usr -cassidy:/c2/user-mode-linux# chroot rpm-root/root -cassidy:/# ls -bin dev home lib opt root tmp var -boot etc initrd mnt proc sbin usr -cassidy:/# exit -cassidy:/c2/user-mode-linux# exit -Script done on Thu Nov 22 15:54:33 2001 -</CODE> -</PRE> - - - </BODY> -</HTML>
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