[Live-demo] Status of full osgeolive 6.5?

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Yes, I forgot that there are people using the disk from other OS :)

On 02/23/2013 11:25 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> Chatted with Angelos, we think we know the issue. He had put the
> installers into the squash instead of next to it, which grew the squash
> above 4GB which isn't normally supported on a normal ISO cd without udf
> specifically turned on.
>
> We'll fix the script and try again.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 02/23/2013 01:16 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> Something isn't right, after I worked around the hard coded paths that
>> didn't match my system it gave and error about size at the last step.
>> It sounds like it might be overridable with a flag to the geniso but
>> that might also result in file that's too big to burn.
>>
>> "File ./casper/filesystem.squashfs is larger than 4GiB-1.
>> -allow-limited-size was not specified. There is no way do represent this
>> file size. Aborting."
>>
>> The script cleaned itself up so I can't inspect the "bad" squashfs size.
>>
>> Log is up
>> http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/6.5nightly/build_debug_full-12.log
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> On 02/23/2013 05:16 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I just completed the fix for #1093 in r10035
>>>
>>> Hamish can you please review the script?
>>>
>>> Alex can you please try it? (heads up: you will have to change the
>>> mirror to point to your copy of mini iso)
>>>
>>> Hope this solves this and we can produce the final full iso too.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Angelos
>>>
>>> On 02/22/2013 10:39 PM, Hamish wrote:
>>>> Cameron wrote:
>>>>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1093
>>>> ...
>>>>> The current situation is
>>>>> that in the full iso, the index.html file in
>>>>> the Win/Mac? Downloads directory is not
>>>>> being removed as it should.
>>>> right, and replaced with symlinks back to the dirs in /cdrom.
>>>> besides the new index.html files the dirs need to be removed
>>>> as well.
>>>>
>>>>>      Options to try:
>>>>> 1. At the start of the bin/build_full_iso.sh, remove the
>>>>> doc/WindowsInstallers/index.rst
>>>>> and doc/MacInstallers/index.rst source files.
>>>> we tried that, it didn't work. those files are frozen up
>>>> inside the squashfs filesystem on the iso.
>>>>
>>>>> 2. Retrospectively unpack the iso image, remove the index.html
>>>>> file, then repack the image.
>>>> right, & that's exactly what Angelos is planning on doing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> for 7.0 I've modified rc.local to make this choice at boot time,
>>>> based on the availablilty of the installers or not. Since the
>>>> mini iso is pretty much ready at this point it's too late for
>>>> this round so we'll do some open air brain surgery on the full
>>>> iso to fix it by hand this time. Not ideal, but we're pretty
>>>> familiar with the method by now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>> Hamish
>>>>
>>>
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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
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