perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Sofia Sayzhenkova <>]

Hi Andy,

thanks for your response.
It's not a principal issue for me.

I just was confused during the installation.

Now, it's clear for me.

Sofia

On 07/03/2013 03:44 PM, Andy Lake wrote:
> 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


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