[SOLVED] Syslinux : Missing OS

xcodexif · 2013-11-01 13:26:58

teateawhy wrote:

Don't exclude sed.

Why ? System and utilities really need it ?

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teateawhy · 2013-11-01 13:49:39

Because you do not know what you are doing.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1263652

xcodexif · 2013-11-01 13:53:17

Ok.
Otherwise, no idea for my Syslinux problem ?
I'll try to install it manually.

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xcodexif · 2013-11-01 16:42:58

Ok !
I've done the manual installation of Syslinux, and It was successful.
Here is what I've done in chroot :

# cp -rf /usr/lib/syslinux/bios/* /boot/syslinux
# extlinux --install /boot/syslinux
/boot is device /dev/sda1
# dd bs=440 count=1 conv=notrunc if=/boot/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
440 bytes (440 B) copied, 0.00546138 s, 80.6 kB/s

Can you tell me more about extlinux ?

VanillaFunk · 2013-11-01 16:52:46

just so i can get on the same page xcodexif

xcodexif wrote:

Ok !
I've done the manual installation of Syslinux, and It was successful.

does this mean you can now boot the system without the install media?

xcodexif · 2013-11-01 16:57:20

VanillaFunk wrote:

does this mean you can now boot the system without the install media?

Yeah, with direct BIOS boot and with chain load.
Now I have have to edit my installation procedure !
Thanks for help

VanillaFunk · 2013-11-01 17:00:23

for the rest of the install process i suggest following the beginners guide as was pointed out earlier.

that way users are set up correctly xorg etc and there are links to follow when choosing a DE or WM

xcodexif · 2013-11-01 17:06:30

No, I don't need to go further. I'm now installing Arch on 7 servers (from the Pentium III to the AMD 64) for doing distributed hosting of Minecraft servers. I'm an Arch and Fedora user since 4 years, and it's a great minimalist OS for servers. So I don't need any GUI. It was the first time I used Syslinux, I used before GRUB, but I think it's too cumbersome. I like when things are small, light and fast !

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cfr · 2013-11-01 23:18:39

Several of your exclusions are being installed anyway e.g. texinfo and hence perl, sed etc. However, you should not exclude sed, anyway, because it is important it doesn't get uninstalled which it might if it is only pulled in as a dependency. (If you pacman -Rs the package which depends on it, for example.)

You should go further even if you do not need a GUI. You should at least configure a non-root account. You do not want root to have remote access to your servers. You also appear to have missed some other important steps covered in the Beginners' Guide. The main part of the Beginners' Guide doesn't cover X anyway - it just takes you through the first reboot of the system.

xcodexif · 2013-11-01 23:43:09

cfr wrote:

Several of your exclusions are being installed anyway e.g. texinfo and hence perl, sed etc.

Yes, I saw it, but I think texinfo was not a dependency because when I tried to install elinks, I saw it as dependency. I was not installed with my 'base' group.

cfr wrote:

You should go further even if you do not need a GUI. You should at least configure a non-root account.

I always disable root account and use `sudo`.

cfr wrote:

You also appear to have missed some other important steps covered in the Beginners' Guide.

If you talk about pacman and systemctl, I used them for a long time, it's not new for me.

I just never go deeper in Archlinux. Even if I use it since some years, I'm still learning.

cfr · 2013-11-01 23:58:46

wget depends on libidn which depends on texinfo which depends on perl

fakeroot (at least) depends on sed

And no, pacman and systemctl wasn't what I had in mind. But since you clearly do at least some things to install before what you listed earlier, I trust you've taken care of them.

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