[BRLTTY] rhmkiso out of space error

[Don Raikes]

Actually, the brltty.iso is never created.

Is there a way to have rhmkiso compensate for this problem? I saw the resize2fs command and tried playing with it a bit but with no success.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Mielke [mailto:dave at mielke.cc]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 3:04 PM
> To: Don Raikes
> Cc: brltty at mielke.cc
> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] rhmkiso out of space error
> 
> 
> [quoted lines by Don Raikes on 2007/10/16 at 14:44 -0700]
> 
> >I am attempting to create a braillified boot cd for redhat 
> enterprise linux 4
> >AS u3.
> >
> >When I run rhmkiso with the boot.iso from the first cd and 
> brltty-3.8.tar.gz
> >or brltty-3.7.tar.gz I get a lot of out of space errors when 
> the script is
> >attempting to copy files (see log below).
> >
> >I know that I have had this kind of problem before, and it 
> was resolved, but I
> >don't remember how it was fixed. I am running the commands 
> on an enterprise
> >linux 5 system with over 200gb of freespace.
> 
> The messages look way worse than the situation. The problem 
> is that adding
> brltty to the initrd requires more space than has been 
> allocated within the
> initrd. rhmkiso knows how to deal with it, though, and 
> corrects for the
> problem. All you need to ensure is that rhmkiso exits with a 
> return code of 0.
> If it does then the image is fine.
> 
> Later installers, e.g. FC6 and F7, use cpio rather than a 
> gzipped ext2 file
> system so they don't have the problem. Perhaps later RHEL 
> installers use cpio
> as well.
> 
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