perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andy Lake <>]

Hi Sofia,

First of all, sorry this did not get responded to sooner. Also, unfortunately 
a custom layout is impossible with recent changes to anaconda. This is a 
conscious decision to deprecate "interactive" mode by the anaconda 
developers. Changing from text mode to graphical mode in the kickstart won't 
help, we've tried and I personally spent quite a bit of time trying to get 
around this issue. They have deprecated interactive mode in favor of 
"headless" installations, which isn' great for the toolkit use case. This 
limits us to a default scheme for the time-being. You can see some discussion 
with the anaconda developer on this topic here: 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660754

We'll eventually need to find a new way to handle the initial install phase 
and have an issue for it here: 
http://code.google.com/p/perfsonar-ps/issues/detail?id=723. There is some 
extra info there. 

Thanks,
Andy





On Jun 21, 2013, at 9:17 AM, 

 wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I downloaded  pS-Performance_Toolkit-3.3-NetInstall-x86_64.iso from this 
> link
> http://software.internet2.edu/pS-Performance_Toolkit/pS-Performance_Toolkit-3.
> 3-NetInstall-x86_64.iso to upgrade my 3.2.2 instance.
> 
> 
> Installation starts on text mode by default. I can see in the cfg file on 
> iso
> that it is declared as a text mode in Installation Configuration.
> 
> According Gentos documentation it's impossible to create a custom layout on
> text mode installation.
> 
> Is it possible to change this option in
> pS-Performance_Toolkit/pS-Performance_Toolkit-3.3-NetInstall-x86_64.iso to 
> let
> users install it in graphics mode?
> 
> Best regards,
> Sofia