Open phunni opened 4 years ago
Bump - any ideas/thoughts?
Sorry for the delay, I'm responding now, give me a sec.
Once a machine is running a darch image, is there any reason to keep the original root partition if I don't intend to ever boot that machine into the original OS again? I installed a basic version of arch simply to initially build my first darch images and then, once I was running a darch image, this server would simply become my build server. I now have a partition that was used for root in the original arch OS that, as far as I can tell, isn't being used for anything.
You could, but it's dangerous. As long as you always have a good image to boot into, maybe you'll be fine, but I wouldn't risk it. I've actually never needed to boot into mine. I'm just scared.
Maybe this would help with your hooks.
Here is my /etc/darch/hooks/fstab.config
:
*=default_fstab
The *
matches all images.
My /etc/darch/hooks/default_fstab
is a standard fstab.
After making any changes, run darch
to update your hooks in your already staged images.
It seems like the fstab.config (and possibly the other hooks) only actually run when there is a default option in there as well. I got it working with a specific example:
image_name:tag_name=image_name_fstab
only when there was also something like: *=default_fstab
Having played with darch for a few days now and (possibly) actually got a working machine up and running on darch - I have a couple more questions:
1) Once a machine is running a darch image, is there any reason to keep the original root partition if I don't intend to ever boot that machine into the original OS again? I installed a basic version of arch simply to initially build my first darch images and then, once I was running a darch image, this server would simply become my build server. I now have a partition that was used for root in the original arch OS that, as far as I can tell, isn't being used for anything. 2) I'm having real trouble with hooks. Specifically the format of the .config files. I looked at the examples given at godarch.com and, while trying to create an fstab.config for an image called build_server I initially tried creating a file that contained something like:
which referred to an existing file in /etc/darch/hooks. This resulted in the following error:
I then tried all the variations I could think of before the = sign - including just the name of the image and the only thing that worked was a simple *:
which, given I currently only have one image, is fine - but it won't be once I want to create other images for other machines...
Sorry to be a pain and keep asking all these questions, but I'm keen to make progress with darch and I think it could be really useful for me.
Edit: removed a minor typo.