Install Pacman on non-arch system
Heya. I'm running a server that's hosting an arch repo, but the server itself isn't running arch. I was wonderin' if it was possible to install basic commands like repo-add and pacman, so I can manage the repo from the server, instead of having to manage it on my local comp and upload everything. Anyone know if this is possible?
Yes, just build pacman from source on the server.
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Networked or non-networked system?
Hello people.Me again with stupid questions. As I said, I want to use my computer as server, to serve web pages in local area network, for my family and my neighbours. What I want to do is to set up a network, and on the very first step of the installation I am in dilemma. Should my system be a networked? What solaris mean under 'networked'? Is this settings for my network, or for internet? I use ADSL, and I get the dynamic Ip adress, each time I connect. So what to do? To say that my system is networked, and should I enable DHCP, or should I configure it manually? I am really confused. I tried to set it up manually, but installation did not found any default routers... I want to my server have a static Ip adress... What to do? And is this a settings for the internet, of for local area network? Thank you again, and sorry for stupid question.
Sincerely OzirisI think that things are much clearer now. Now i want
to summarize your post, just to see if I understood
you good. First i will install solaris as
Non-networked system, and later, when I boot solaris,
and when it is working i will apply this pkg file
(which i downloaded with windows, and have it on
flash). On the site where you tell me to download
this pkg it writes:
# wget
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/downloa
ds/inetmenu-2.3.2.pkg.gz
# gunzip inetmenu-2.3.2.pkg.gz
# pkgadd -d ./inetmenu-2.3.2.pkg
I suppose that this first line i don`t need to type,
because it is wget (suppose web get), and i will have
no network, and internet (right?). And where I should
type this, probably in some 'shell' or something like
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`cos I have 200 gb secondary disc
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I made a systemupgrade and now is my system (rootserver) dead!
How can i save my system remote?
[root@rocky pacman.d]# pacman -Su
Targets: automake-1.10-1 damageproto-1.1.0-1 freetype2-2.3.1-1 gcc-4.1.2-3 glibc-2.5-4
kernel-headers-2.6.20-1 kernel26-2.6.20-3 xcb-proto-1.0-1 libxcb-1.0-2
libx11-1.1.1-2 libxdamage-1.1-1 libxml2-2.6.27-2 libxslt-1.1.20-2
randrproto-1.2.0-1
Total Package Size: 52.7 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from testing...
automake-1.10-1 [#######################] 100% 317K 80.0K/s 00:00:03
damageproto-1.1.0-1 [#######################] 100% 2K 2.0K/s 00:00:01
freetype2-2.3.1-1 [#######################] 100% 702K 150.0K/s 00:00:04
gcc-4.1.2-3 [#######################] 100% 18155K 224.2K/s 00:01:20
glibc-2.5-4 [#######################] 100% 10310K 227.0K/s 00:00:45
kernel-headers-2.6.20-1 [#######################] 100% 585K 135.1K/s 00:00:04
kernel26-2.6.20-3 [#######################] 100% 19604K 189.4K/s 00:01:43
libx11-1.1.1-2 [#######################] 100% 1974K 180.5K/s 00:00:10
libxdamage-1.1-1 [#######################] 100% 7K 4.2K/s 00:00:01
libxml2-2.6.27-2 [#######################] 100% 1531K 182.2K/s 00:00:08
libxslt-1.1.20-2 [#######################] 100% 355K 78.9K/s 00:00:04
randrproto-1.2.0-1 [#######################] 100% 4K 4.0K/s 00:00:01
:: Retrieving packages from current...
xcb-proto-1.0-1 [#######################] 100% 33K 18.3K/s 00:00:01
libxcb-1.0-2 [#######################] 100% 333K 99.2K/s 00:00:03
checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts... done.
upgrading automake... done.
upgrading damageproto... done.
upgrading freetype2... done.
upgrading gcc... done.
upgrading glibc... done.
upgrading kernel-headers... done.
upgrading kernel26... done.
installing xcb-proto... done.
installing libxcb... done.
upgrading libx11... done.
upgrading libxdamage... done.
upgrading libxml2... done.
upgrading libxslt... done.
upgrading randrproto... done.
[root@rocky pacman.d]# uname -r
-bash: /bin/uname: No such file or directory
[root@rocky pacman.d]# uname -r
-bash: /bin/uname: No such file or directory
[root@rocky pacman.d]# ls
-bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory
[root@rocky pacman.d]# ls
-bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory
[root@rocky pacman.d]# rebot
-bash: rebot: command not found
[root@rocky pacman.d]# reboot
-bash: /sbin/reboot: No such file or directory
[root@rocky pacman.d]# /bin/
arch df hostname mountpoint su
awk dir install mv sync
bash dircolors isatty netstat tar
bunzip2 dmesg kill nisdomainname touch
bzcat dnsdomainname less pidof tr
bzip2 domainname ln ping true
bzip2recover du loadkeys ping6 umount
cat echo loadkeys.static ps uname
chgrp egrep login pwd uncompress
chmod false ls readlink vdir
chown fgrep lsmod rm ypdomainname
compress gawk mbchk rmdir zcat
cp gawk-3.1.5 mkdir sed zless
cpio grep mkfifo sh
cut groups mknod shred
date gunzip more sleep
dd gzip mount stty
[root@rocky pacman.d]# /bin/
arch df hostname mountpoint su
awk dir install mv sync
bash dircolors isatty netstat tar
bunzip2 dmesg kill nisdomainname touch
bzcat dnsdomainname less pidof tr
bzip2 domainname ln ping true
bzip2recover du loadkeys ping6 umount
cat echo loadkeys.static ps uname
chgrp egrep login pwd uncompress
chmod false ls readlink vdir
chown fgrep lsmod rm ypdomainname
compress gawk mbchk rmdir zcat
cp gawk-3.1.5 mkdir sed zless
cpio grep mkfifo sh
cut groups mknod shred
date gunzip more sleep
dd gzip mount stty
[root@rocky pacman.d]# /bin/bash
-bash: /bin/bash: No such file or directoryMy mkinitcpio.conf and grub/menu.lst was reset after the upgrade. After I chose the right modules and the right orderin mkinitcpio.conf and rebuilt my menu.lst it worked again. Of course, this was my personal experience with the 2.6.20 upgrade of archlinux.
Best regards,
Martin -
ArchTaz Live: boot and run an Arch system entirely in RAM
ArchTaz Live Boot: A method to boot and run an Arch system entirely in RAM using tmpfs.
As the name suggests it was inspired by (copied entirely from) SliTaz http://www.slitaz.org/ and boots in exacly the same way.
It needs a custom init script in the root directory and for some reason that I can't work out a hook for sysinit_premount in rc.sysinit to remount / rw.
The /usr/bin/archfs script is just a chunk of Slitaz's Tazusb utility with some minor changes (and I haven't properly tested the lzma or no compression).
The /init script is modified from the usual initramfs /usr/lib/initcpio/init with hints from the SliTaz /init script (and some personal additions for my system).
Copy init to the root directory, run archfs (eg. # archfs writefs gzip) and move the resulting archfs.gz to your boot partition/directory and boot with archfs.gz as your initrd.
I run a fairly light system (Openbox, Firefox, Gnome-Mplayer, SpaceFM, no dev packages) and gzip compression gives me an archfs.gz just over 230MB that boots in just over 30 seconds using 138MB RAM on startup, and most applications start instantly (2GHz Core2Duo, 4G RAM). Lzma compression generally gives a smaller archfs.gz but takes longer to boot. I have a persistent home partition, I install packages as I need them and then they're gone on next reboot if I don't do a new archfs.gz to keep them. I delete man pages, unneeded locales, etc. Obviously if you're running a hefty install on a limited box you may run into problems.
Any tips, cleanups, corrections welcome. It's been a mostly copy and paste and mash stuff together process so it isn't neat. And I think I may need some serious help when systemd becomes default.
/usr/bin/archfs:
#!/bin/sh
# Archfs - entirely copied from part of the Tazusb utility supplied with
# SLiTaz GNU Linux - with some cosmetic changes.
### Tazusb - SliTaz LiveUSB
### Tazusb is an utility to generate, configure and manipulate SliTaz LiveUSB
### bootable media and/or USB /home partition, such as flash keys, SD card or
### USB harddisk.
### Authors : Christophe Lincoln (Pankso) <[email protected]>
### Andrew Miller (Spode) <[email protected]>
COMMAND=$1
case $COMMAND in
writefs)
# Writefs to rootfs.gz
if [ -z $2 ]; then
COMPRESSION=none
else
COMPRESSION=$2
fi
# Start info
echo ""
echo -e "\033[1mWrite filesystem\033[0m
===============================================================================
The command writefs will write all the current filesystem into a suitable cpio
archive (rootfs.gz) usable on a bootable LiveUSB media.
Archive compression: $COMPRESSION"
echo ""
# Create list of files
find /bin /etc /init /sbin /var /lib /lib64 /root /usr >/tmp/list
for dir in /boot /dev /home /proc /sys /tmp /mnt /media /run
do
echo $dir >>/tmp/list
done
# Generate initramfs with specified compression
if [ "$COMPRESSION" = "lzma" ]; then
echo -n "Creating archfs.gz with lzma compression... "
cat /tmp/list | cpio -o -H newc | lzma > /archfs.gz
elif [ "$COMPRESSION" = "gzip" ]; then
echo -n "Creating archfs.gz with gzip compression... "
cat /tmp/list | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 > /archfs.gz
else
echo -n "Creating archfs.gz without compression... "
cat /tmp/list | cpio -o -H newc > /archfs.gz
fi
# Get initramfs size
size=`du -sh /archfs.gz | cut -f 1`
echo "==============================================================================="
echo "Root filesystem size: $size"
echo ""
echo -en "----\nENTER to continue..."; read i
esac
exit 0
/init:
#!/bin/bash
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
udevd_running=0
if [ -x /usr/bin/systemd-timestamp ]; then
RD_TIMESTAMP=$(systemd-timestamp)
fi
. /usr/lib/initcpio/init_functions
mount -t proc proc /proc -o nosuid,noexec,nodev
mount -t sysfs sys /sys -o nosuid,noexec,nodev
mount -t devtmpfs dev /dev -o mode=0755,nosuid
mount -t tmpfs run /run -o nosuid,nodev,mode=0755
mkdir -m755 /run/initramfs
# parse the kernel command line
parse_cmdline
for d in ${disablehooks//,/ }; do
[ -e "/hooks/$d" ] && chmod 644 "/hooks/$d"
done
#. /config
run_hookfunctions 'run_earlyhook' 'early hook' $EARLYHOOKS
[ -n "${earlymodules//[[:space:]]}" ] && modprobe -qab ${earlymodules//,/ }
[ -n "${MODULES//[[:space:]]}" ] && modprobe -qab $MODULES
# If rootdelay is empty or not a non-negative integer, set it to 10
if [ -z "${rootdelay}" ] || ! [ "${rootdelay}" -ge 0 ]; then
rootdelay=10
fi
run_hookfunctions 'run_hook' 'hook' $HOOKS
# honor the old behavior of break=y as a synonym for break=premount
if [ "${break}" = "y" ] || [ "${break}" = "premount" ]; then
echo ":: Pre-mount break requested, type 'exit' to resume operation"
launch_interactive_shell
fi
rootdev=$(resolve_device "$root") && root=$rootdev
unset rootdev
#fsck_root
# Make /new_root
mkdir /new_root
# Mount root at /new_root
#${mount_handler:-default_mount_handler} /new_root
echo -e "Switching / to tmpfs..."
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /new_root
run_hookfunctions 'run_latehook' 'late hook' $LATEHOOKS
run_hookfunctions 'run_cleanuphook' 'cleanup hook' $CLEANUPHOOKS
# Stop udevd if is running
if [ "${udevd_running}" -eq 1 ]; then
udevadm control --exit
udevadm info --cleanup-db
fi
# Copy root
echo -e "Copying root..."
for i in $(ls -a /); do
case "$i" in
.|..) ;;
mnt) mkdir /new_root/mnt;;
proc) mkdir /new_root/proc;;
sys) mkdir /new_root/sys;;
dev) mkdir /new_root/dev;;
run) mkdir /new_root/run;;
new_root) ;;
*) cp -a /$i /new_root
esac
done
# Create mountpoints
mkdir /new_root/mnt/sda1
mkdir /new_root/mnt/sda2
mkdir /new_root/mnt/sda3
mkdir /new_root/mnt/sda4
init=${init:-/sbin/init}
echo -e "Switching root..."
exec env -i \
"TERM=$TERM" \
"RD_TIMESTAMP=$RD_TIMESTAMP" \
/sbin/switch_root /new_root $init "$@"
## Mount root at /new_root
#${mount_handler:-default_mount_handler} /new_root
#run_hookfunctions 'run_latehook' 'late hook' $LATEHOOKS
#run_hookfunctions 'run_cleanuphook' 'cleanup hook' $CLEANUPHOOKS
init=${init:-/sbin/init}
if [ "$(stat -c %D /)" = "$(stat -c %D /new_root)" ]; then
# Nothing got mounted on /new_root. This is the end, we don't know what to do anymore
# We fall back into a shell, but the shell has now PID 1
# This way, manual recovery is still possible.
err "Failed to mount the real root device."
echo "Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck."
echo
launch_interactive_shell --exec
elif [ ! -x "/new_root${init}" ]; then
# Successfully mounted /new_root, but ${init} is missing
# The same logic as above applies
err "Root device mounted successfully, but ${init} does not exist."
echo "Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck."
echo
launch_interactive_shell --exec
fi
if [ "${break}" = "postmount" ]; then
echo ":: Post-mount break requested, type 'exit' to resume operation"
launch_interactive_shell
fi
exec env -i \
"TERM=$TERM" \
"RD_TIMESTAMP=$RD_TIMESTAMP" \
/sbin/switch_root /new_root $init "$@"
# vim: set ft=sh ts=4 sw=4 et:
/etc/rc.d/functions.d/root_rw:
root_rw() {
mount -o remount,rw /
add_hook sysinit_premount root_rw
archfs:
http://pastebin.com/RNTDWhFc
init:
http://pastebin.com/n4vcqG62
root_rw:
http://pastebin.com/i1LV61SV
Last edited by 0ddba11 (2012-12-30 10:12:35)Oh yes any man directory was symlinked to /tmp long ago, so they don't even get installed.
Right, new boot process:
Using hooks in normal initramfs-linux.img to unpack archfs.gz into tmpfs and boot it.
Create an initcpio preset file /etc/mkinitcpio.d/archfs.preset:
# mkinitcpio preset file for the 'archfs' package
ALL_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
ALL_kver="/boot/vmlinuz-linux"
PRESETS=('archfs')
archfs_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
archfs_image="/boot/archfs-linux.lzo"
archfs_options="-S fsck -A tmpfs -z lzop"
Or append to the standard 'linux.preset' file so the initramfs is created automatically when you upgrade your kernel. Or alter /etc/mkinitcpio.conf to add options.
Create the file /lib/initcpio/hooks/tmpfs:
#!/usr/bin/ash
run_latehook() {
# Mount tmpfs root
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt
# Unpack rootfs
msg "Unpacking rootfs..."
cd /mnt
# parse the kernel command line
parse_cmdline
for archfs in ${archfs//,/ }; do
if [ "$archfs" = "xz" ]; then
xz -d < /new_root/boot/archfs.xz | cpio -imd --no-absolute-filenames > /dev/null 2>&1
elif [ "$archfs" = "gzip" ]; then
gzip -dc /new_root/boot/archfs.gz | cpio -imd --no-absolute-filenames > /dev/null 2>&1
elif [ "$archfs" = "lzo" ]; then
lzop -d < /new_root/boot/archfs.lzo | cpio -imd --no-absolute-filenames > /dev/null 2>&1
elif [ "$archfs" = "img" ]; then
cpio -imd --no-absolute-filenames /new_root/boot/archfs.img > /dev/null 2>&1
fi
done
# Switch tmpfs to new root
umount /new_root
mount -M /mnt /new_root
# vim: set ft=sh ts=4 sw=4 et:
And the file /lib/initcpio/install/tmpfs:
#!/bin/bash
build() {
add_dir /mnt
add_module ext3
add_binary cpio
add_binary xz
add_binary gzip
add_binary lzop
add_binary fsck.ext4
add_symlink /usr/bin/fsck.ext2 fsck.ext4
add_symlink /usr/bin/fsck.ext3 fsck.ext4
add_runscript
help() {
cat <<HELPEOF
This hook creates the tmpfs root, mounts the device that contains the
rootfs and extracts it into the tmpfs root.
HELPEOF
# vim: set ft=sh ts=4 sw=4 et:
This loads modules and fsck binaries for the filesystem of my /boot partition into the initramfs. It also adds all the relevant compression binaries (some which can also be compiled into busybox or left out if not needed). I'm working on automatically reading the filesystem from your /boot partition based on the "root=" kernel command line option and adding the appropriate modules.
Create a new archfs.gz (or new extensions) with new cleaned up /usr/bin/archfs:
http://pastebin.com/xiqgyYyL
Now run with:
# archfs lzo
(or whichever crompression you choose). It also takes care of any mounting directories you have in /mnt. And "writefs" is no longer needed, that's all it does anyway.
Then simply add the "root=(your boot partition)" and "archfs=lzo" (or whichever compression you chose) command line options to your grub.cfg.
Run:
# mkinitcpio -p archfs
That'll create an initramfs: archfs-linux.lzo that you need to move to your boot partition with your kernel and archfs.gz. Then point grub to that as your initrd.
This will boot and the tmpfs hook will do it's work just after init has mounted your boot partition and then init will switch roots and run /sbin/init as it would on any normal install.
Mix and match as needed. You can remove the /init file from the root of your filesystem or leave it there and all but an xz compressed archfs.gz will boot the old way aswell (the kernel can't handle the xz version). It should all be fairly upgrade proof, barring any major changes to mkinitcpio.
Boot for me with lzo compression is at least twice as fast as old method. Partly due to lzo compression which is super fast (especially creating the archfs.lzo). It makes for a bigger file but it's still only 350MB (pretty much half my uncompressed root filesystem). -
Update Xorg 7 and arch-system, this is my contribution
This works for me, this is my contribution, I hope can help someone in troubles:
pacman -Sy
pacman -Rd xorg-server xorg-clients (if installed)
pacman -Sf xorg-xdm
pacman -S xorg-clients xorg-server
pacman -Sf xorg
pacman -Syu (upgrade all system, almost 200mb)
pacman -S xorg-fonts-75dpi
pacman -S xorg-fonts-100dpi
pacman -S libxcomposite libxss
Enter in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reconfigure the paths so:
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Write startx, if it doesn't works kdm or gdm, write:
mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/bin/
ln -s /usr/bin/X /usr/X11R6/bin/X
If doesn't works, control the errors, maybe it misses a file, install it with pacman.
Moreover, I've a ricompiled kernel with drivers nvidia, so I'm entered on my kernel source and I've written:
make all && make modules_install
generate-modprobe.conf
cp -f System.map /boot
cd arch/i386/boot
cp -f bzImage /boot
At this point I've rebooted and I've reinstalled Nvidia drivers:
./NVidia.xxxxxx.run (WITHOUT OVERWRITE FILE /etc/X11/xorg.conf)This works for me, this is my contribution, I hope can help someone in troubles:
pacman -Sy
pacman -Rd xorg-server xorg-clients (if installed)
pacman -Sf xorg-xdm
pacman -S xorg-clients xorg-server
pacman -Sf xorg
pacman -Syu (upgrade all system, almost 200mb)
pacman -S xorg-fonts-75dpi
pacman -S xorg-fonts-100dpi
pacman -S libxcomposite libxss
Enter in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reconfigure the paths so:
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Write startx, if it doesn't works kdm or gdm, write:
mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/bin/
ln -s /usr/bin/X /usr/X11R6/bin/X
If doesn't works, control the errors, maybe it misses a file, install it with pacman.
Moreover, I've a ricompiled kernel with drivers nvidia, so I'm entered on my kernel source and I've written:
make all && make modules_install
generate-modprobe.conf
cp -f System.map /boot
cd arch/i386/boot
cp -f bzImage /boot
At this point I've rebooted and I've reinstalled Nvidia drivers:
./NVidia.xxxxxx.run (WITHOUT OVERWRITE FILE /etc/X11/xorg.conf) -
Install 2nd instance of Arch Linux without internet connection
I have successfully install a first instance of Arch Linux using Arch Linux ISO + pacstrap + pacman with internet connection.
I have updated to latest package database list (/var/lib/pacman/sync) and package cache files (/var/cache/pacman/pkg) in first instance of Arch Linux with "pacman -Swyu".
Next, I would like to install 2nd instance of Arch Linux without using internet connection.
I share the "/var/lib/pacman/sync" and "/var/cache/pacman/pkg" via NFS from first Arch Linux instance.
I boot the 2nd instance with Arch Linux ISO and attempt to install without internet connection. I mount the two NFS shares from 1st instance to "/var/cache/pacman/pkg" and "/mnt/var/lib/pacman/sync" respectively. I execute
# pacstrap -i -c /mnt"
to start installation.
I found it is almost impossible with current implementation of pacstrap script. The pacstrap script always attempt to update package database list with -Sy option.
I think some amendments on pacstrap script is needed to install Arch Linux without internet connection.I made the edit by adding the option -o to do what you want.
I am too lazy for a feature request right now...
#!/bin/bash
# Assumptions:
# 1) User has partitioned, formatted, and mounted partitions on /mnt
# 2) Network is functional
# 3) Arguments passed to the script are valid pacman targets
# 4) A valid mirror appears in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
shopt -s extglob
out() { printf "$1 $2\n" "${@:3}"; }
error() { out "==> ERROR:" "$@"; } >&2
msg() { out "==>" "$@"; }
msg2() { out " ->" "$@";}
die() { error "$@"; exit 1; }
in_array() {
local i
for i in "${@:2}"; do
[[ $1 = "$i" ]] && return
done
track_mount() {
mount "$@" && CHROOT_ACTIVE_MOUNTS=("$2" "${CHROOT_ACTIVE_MOUNTS[@]}")
api_fs_mount() {
CHROOT_ACTIVE_MOUNTS=()
{ mountpoint -q "$1" || track_mount "$1" "$1" --bind; } &&
track_mount proc "$1/proc" -t proc -o nosuid,noexec,nodev &&
track_mount sys "$1/sys" -t sysfs -o nosuid,noexec,nodev &&
track_mount udev "$1/dev" -t devtmpfs -o mode=0755,nosuid &&
track_mount devpts "$1/dev/pts" -t devpts -o mode=0620,gid=5,nosuid,noexec &&
track_mount shm "$1/dev/shm" -t tmpfs -o mode=1777,nosuid,nodev &&
track_mount run "$1/run" -t tmpfs -o nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 &&
track_mount tmp "$1/tmp" -t tmpfs -o mode=1777,strictatime,nodev,nosuid
api_fs_umount() {
umount "${CHROOT_ACTIVE_MOUNTS[@]}"
valid_number_of_base() {
local base=$1 len=${#2} i=
for (( i = 0; i < len; i++ )); do
(( (${2:i:1} & ~(base - 1)) == 0 )) || return
done
mangle() {
local i= chr= out=
unset {a..f} {A..F}
for (( i = 0; i < ${#1}; i++ )); do
chr=${1:i:1}
case $chr in
[[:space:]\\])
printf -v chr '%03o' "'$chr"
out+=\\
# fallthrough
out+=$chr
esac
done
printf '%s' "$out"
unmangle() {
local i= chr= out= len=$(( ${#1} - 4 ))
unset {a..f} {A..F}
for (( i = 0; i < len; i++ )); do
chr=${1:i:1}
case $chr in
if valid_number_of_base 8 "${1:i+1:3}" ||
valid_number_of_base 16 "${1:i+1:3}"; then
printf -v chr '%b' "${1:i:4}"
(( i += 3 ))
fi
# fallthrough
out+=$chr
esac
done
printf '%s' "$out${1:i}"
dm_name_for_devnode() {
read dm_name <"/sys/class/block/${1#/dev/}/dm/name"
if [[ $dm_name ]]; then
printf '/dev/mapper/%s' "$dm_name"
else
# don't leave the caller hanging, just print the original name
# along with the failure.
print '%s' "$1"
error 'Failed to resolve device mapper name for: %s' "$1"
fi
fstype_is_pseudofs() {
# list taken from util-linux source: libmount/src/utils.c
local -A pseudofs_types=([anon_inodefs]=1
[autofs]=1
[bdev]=1
[binfmt_misc]=1
[cgroup]=1
[configfs]=1
[cpuset]=1
[debugfs]=1
[devfs]=1
[devpts]=1
[devtmpfs]=1
[dlmfs]=1
[fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon]=1
[fusectl]=1
[hugetlbfs]=1
[mqueue]=1
[nfsd]=1
[none]=1
[pipefs]=1
[proc]=1
[pstore]=1
[ramfs]=1
[rootfs]=1
[rpc_pipefs]=1
[securityfs]=1
[sockfs]=1
[spufs]=1
[sysfs]=1
[tmpfs]=1)
(( pseudofs_types["$1"] ))
newroot=/mnt
hostcache=0
copykeyring=1
copymirrorlist=1
offline=0
usage() {
cat <<EOF
usage: ${0##*/} [options] root [packages...]
Options:
-C config Use an alternate config file for pacman
-c Use the package cache on the host, rather than the target
-d Allow installation to a non-mountpoint directory
-G Avoid copying the host's pacman keyring to the target
-i Avoid auto-confirmation of package selections
-M Avoid copying the host's mirrorlist to the target
-o Do not update the pacman cache for offline installation
-h Print this help message
pacstrap installs packages to the specified new root directory. If no packages
are given, pacstrap defaults to the "base" group.
EOF
if [[ -z $1 || $1 = @(-h|--help) ]]; then
usage
exit $(( $# ? 0 : 1 ))
fi
(( EUID == 0 )) || die 'This script must be run with root privileges'
while getopts ':C:cdGiMo' flag; do
case $flag in
C)
pacman_config=$OPTARG
d)
directory=1
c)
hostcache=1
i)
interactive=1
G)
copykeyring=0
M)
copymirrorlist=0
o)
offline=1
die '%s: option requires an argument -- '\''%s'\' "${0##*/}" "$OPTARG"
die '%s: invalid option -- '\''%s'\' "${0##*/}" "$OPTARG"
esac
done
shift $(( OPTIND - 1 ))
(( $# )) || die "No root directory specified"
newroot=$1; shift
pacman_args=("${@:-base}")
if (( ! hostcache )); then
pacman_args+=(--cachedir="$newroot/var/cache/pacman/pkg")
fi
if (( ! interactive )); then
pacman_args+=(--noconfirm)
fi
if (( ! offline )); then
pacman_args+=(-y)
fi
if [[ $pacman_config ]]; then
pacman_args+=(--config="$pacman_config")
fi
[[ -d $newroot ]] || die "%s is not a directory" "$newroot"
if ! mountpoint -q "$newroot" && (( ! directory )); then
die '%s is not a mountpoint!' "$newroot"
fi
# create obligatory directories
msg 'Creating install root at %s' "$newroot"
mkdir -m 0755 -p "$newroot"/var/{cache/pacman/pkg,lib/pacman,log} "$newroot"/{dev,run,etc}
mkdir -m 1777 -p "$newroot"/tmp
mkdir -m 0555 -p "$newroot"/{sys,proc}
# always call umount on quit after this point
trap 'api_fs_umount "$newroot" 2>/dev/null' EXIT
# mount API filesystems
api_fs_mount "$newroot" || die "failed to setup API filesystems in new root"
msg 'Installing packages to %s' "$newroot"
if ! pacman -r "$newroot" -S "${pacman_args[@]}"; then
die 'Failed to install packages to new root'
fi
if (( copykeyring )); then
# if there's a keyring on the host, copy it into the new root, unless it exists already
if [[ -d /etc/pacman.d/gnupg && ! -d $newroot/etc/pacman.d/gnupg ]]; then
cp -a /etc/pacman.d/gnupg "$newroot/etc/pacman.d/"
fi
fi
if (( copymirrorlist )); then
# install the host's mirrorlist onto the new root
cp -a /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist "$newroot/etc/pacman.d/"
fi
# vim: et ts=2 sw=2 ft=sh: -
How to implement SSO to non-SAP systems using SAP logon ticket?
Hello,
We would like to implement Single Sign On between our SAP Netweaver system and a Siebel which is a non-SAP system using SAP logon tickets.
Can anyone please give me some leads on this, in particular:
1. Is there a JAVA API or an SAP plug-in that can be implemented on the Siebel machine to extract the SAP logon ticket?
2. As the other machine might seat on a complete different domain, is it possible to implement SAP logon ticket without using cookies (perhaps through the HTTP header?
3. In case you think using SAP logon tickets is not the best solution here I would be happy to hear any other suggestions you might have.
RoyHi,
I'm currently using SAML as well. Unfortunately the SAP J2EE cannot work as authority (identity provider) but what you can do is using an open implementation of SAML such as opensso which is an open version of SUNs Java System access manager.
There are a couple of other projects such as opensaml, apache's wss4j or shibboleth that might be interesting in this context.
I just installed opensso and got it working with SAP J2EE 7.0 using SAPs JAAS SAMLLoginModule to authenticate users within SAP J2EE.
In this scenario opensso serves as identity provider just as you need! There are a couple of Policy agents available on SUNs Download site you can use with Apache, Tomcat, JBOSS, WebSphere, Bea Web Logic etc. in order to authenticate! Otherwise you just directly authenticate against opensso. When installing opensso you can configure the type of user store you want to use! By default it uses LDAP but you can also use different types of user store using JDBC or other mechanisms. Since you have a Directory Service you could easily connect it to your existing directory.
There is also a way to map user ids directly in opensso by adding a uid mapping class. I created some documentation with lots of screenshots about using opensso with SAP J2EE. You can easily use opensso with any other system that supports SAML. In the case of SAP the usage is currently limited to SAML versions 1.0 and 1.1. Version 2.0 is not yet supported but should be in one of the following versions.
Here are some links you might want to check:
OpenSAML: https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/OpenSAML/Home
wss4j: http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/
shibboleth: http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/
opensso: https://opensso.dev.java.net/
On SDN you will find a documentation on how to connect SUN Java System Access Manager to SAP J2EE (see https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/906d9fc6-31b9-2910-1385-90edad7d7570). As I said opensso is based on the SUN Access Manager code and looks quite the same. So you can adapt this documentation in order to configure opensso or you can just ask me for the documentation.
Hope this is helpful...
Let me know if you need further assistance on this topic
Cheers -
Interface b/w SAP and NON SAP system
Hi GEMS,
Please give me some suggestion .My requirement is i have to transfer data from sap system to non sap system.
There is no middleware between these systems.The data will be in the xml format.
Please help me regarding these how can we link these systems and transfer data
Best Regards,
PhaniPlease let us us know the platform of the non-sap system such as JAVA/.Net. It's can be done using PI/XI.
As per my experience, I've worked with only SAP JCO and .NET connectors. These connectors can be downloaded from service marketplace and needs to be installed on the non SAP platform. The Data transfer can be done through RFCs, which will be called from the non-sap systems.
Also, the data needs to be in XML format. XML transformations can be created using transaction XSLT_TOOL to convert the ABAP data to XML and viceversa. The generated XML string can be passed to non SAP system through RFC from SAP.
If the process is not synchronous, another option can be dumping the SAP data to FTP, which will be used by the non-sap system whenever required. -
Hello,
Recently, I had a task where I needed to install a custom non-signed driver onto my Windows 8 64-bit setup. As it is known, Windows has driver enforcement policies that, as a security measure, do not allow you to install non-signed drivers.
I did not want to alter my current boot configuration so I decided to create a separate boot entry that would have driver signing policies disabled. For some reason I did not find any good source that would contain a step-by-step instruction on completing
this task, so I decided that I'd better share my experience here.
Lastly, there are multiple ways how you could turn off driver enforcement policies, but I find the way to do this via boot manager.
Here's how you can do that.
1. Press WindowsKey and type 'cmd' (without quotes) to find Command prompt, then click Command prompt icon. If you have User Account Control turned on, hold Ctrl+Shift keys pressed when clicking the icon.
This will force Windows to ask you for elevation of command prompt. Elevation is necessary for editing Boot Configuration Database (BCD), the database used by Windows boot manager to store boot settings.
2. In the User Account Control window click Yes to confirm elevation of command shell.
3. At the command prompt type
bcdedit
to list your BCD entries.
This will give you an output like:
Windows Boot Manager
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2
path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
integrityservices Enable
default {current}
resumeobject {a329b5cf-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
displayorder {a329b5d0-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
{a329b5cc-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
{a329b5ca-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
{a329b5c2-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
{current}
{a329b5d8-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {a329b5d0-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
device vhd=[D:]\win8prowmc01.vhdx
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 8
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {a329b5d1-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
recoveryenabled Yes
isolatedcontext Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice vhd=[D:]\win8prowmc01.vhdx
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {a329b5cf-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
The section that starts with Windows Boot Manager lists current settings for the boot menu. Here you find what boot entry is chosen by default, this is the one what you will boot into if you do not select any boot entry in the
boot menu.
The following record
default {current}
indicates that by default my Windows boots into configuration which I use at the moment (currently booted Windows configuration).
To find out what exactly is current configuration, look into the list of boot entries, records that contain boot loader configuration and are titled as Windows Boot Loader in the bcdedit output.
For example, the entry shown above is one of my boot configurations. This is one of the boot entries listed on the boot manager screen when I start my PC and it looks like:
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {a329b5d0-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
device vhd=[D:]\win8prowmc01.vhdx
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 8
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {a329b5d1-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
recoveryenabled Yes
isolatedcontext Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice vhd=[D:]\win8prowmc01.vhdx
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {a329b5cf-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
This record has a unique GUID identifier that can be used to reference this boot entry, which is:
identifier {a329b5d0-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
If we look at the Windows Boot Manager settings, we'll see this entry is the first in order to be displayed in the boot menu on OS start (I marked the unique bits):
displayorder {a329b5d0-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
{a329b5cc-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
It references my VHD drive, a virtual hard drive where my Windwos 8 setup is residing:
device vhd=[D:]\win8prowmc01.vhdx
And it also specifies that the boot manager must use UEFI BIOS extension code to access my Windows boot partition:
path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
3. Now locate the current boot entry.
Current boot entry contains boot settings used to boot into Windows configuration to which you are currently booted. It is referenced in the list of boot entries as a Windows Boot Loader record that has the {current} keyword inside and may
look like:
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {current}
device vhd=[D:]\win8rtm.vhdx
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 8 Enterprise RTM
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {a329b5c3-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
integrityservices Enable
recoveryenabled Yes
isolatedcontext Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice vhd=[D:]\win8rtm.vhdx
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {a329b5c1-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
hypervisorlaunchtype Auto
Because we are more than happy with current configuration and want to base our new boot configuration on these settings, we need to copy this boot entry ({current}) to a new boot entry.
This is done by running the following command:
C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit /copy {current} /d "No Driver Signature Check"
Parameter /d here indicates that the following sequence of characters specifies the display name for the new boot entry that we are creating. The name inside the double quotes will be displayed in the boot menu when you boot your Windows.
In other words, if you know restart your system, you'll see the new No Driver Signature Check in the boot menu.
When copied, the entry is automatically given a new GUID identifier, so upon running the command above, you'll see the following line returned (you'll have an other GUID since these are unique identifiers):
The entry was successfully copied to {a329b5d8-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}.
4. Make sure the entry has been successfully created.
Run the same bcdedit. (You may specify /enum or /v, or both /enum /v parameters at the prompt to get more detail about boot entries, but simple bcdedit is just enough to see the new entry):
C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit
Windows Boot Manager
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume2
path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
integrityservices Enable
default {current}
resumeobject {a329b5cf-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
displayorder {a329b5d0-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
{a329b5cc-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
{a329b5ca-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
{a329b5c2-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
{current}
{a329b5d8-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {current}
device vhd=[D:]\win8rtm.vhdx
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 8 Enterprise RTM
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {a329b5c3-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
integrityservices Enable
recoveryenabled Yes
isolatedcontext Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice vhd=[D:]\win8rtm.vhdx
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {a329b5c1-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
hypervisorlaunchtype Auto
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {a329b5d8-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
device vhd=[D:]\win8rtm.vhdx
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description No Driver Signature Check
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {a329b5c3-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
integrityservices Enable
recoveryenabled Yes
isolatedcontext Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice vhd=[D:]\win8rtm.vhdx
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {a329b5c1-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
hypervisorlaunchtype Auto
The entry has been created and given a unique a329b5d8-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240 ID. It now has exactly same boot settings as the boot entry we used to boot into current configuration of Windows.
5. Modify created No Driver Signature Check entry and specify that Windows must have driver integrity checks disabled when booted using this boot entry.
Any modifications to boot entries are made using /set parameter. To indicate that we modify a specific boot entry, we must specify the GUID for the No Driver Signature Check record, which is:
identifier {a329b5d8-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
In other words, to edit (add or change) an option for the boot entry, we need to use the following command syntax:
C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit /set GUID <boot_option> [<option_value>]
First, we must specify that we don't want integrity checks be made. This is done by adding the loadoptions option and setting it to DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS value:
C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit /set {a329b5d8-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240} loadopti
ons DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
The operation completed successfully.
6. Verify that load option has been added.
Run the bcdedit command:
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {current}
device vhd=[D:]\win8rtm.vhdx
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 8 Enterprise RTM
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {a329b5c3-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
integrityservices Enable
recoveryenabled Yes
isolatedcontext Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice vhd=[D:]\win8rtm.vhdx
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {a329b5c1-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
hypervisorlaunchtype Auto
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {a329b5d8-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
device vhd=[D:]\win8rtm.vhdx
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description No Driver Signature Check
locale en-US
loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {a329b5c3-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
integrityservices Enable
recoveryenabled Yes
isolatedcontext Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice vhd=[D:]\win8rtm.vhdx
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {a329b5c1-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
hypervisorlaunchtype Auto
7. Add the option that turns on test signing mode and disables checks of driver signature.
Adding the testsigning option and setting it to ON does the trick for us:
C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit /set {a329b5d8-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240} TESTSIGNING ON
8. Now we have a boot entry that enables Windows not to do integrity checks and digital signature validation.
We check it by running bcdedit:
Windows Boot Loader
identifier {a329b5d8-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
device vhd=[D:]\win8rtm.vhdx
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description No Driver Signature Check
locale en-US
loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {a329b5c3-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
integrityservices Enable
recoveryenabled Yes
testsigning Yes
isolatedcontext Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice vhd=[D:]\win8rtm.vhdx
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {a329b5c1-fb29-11e1-a74d-f2c962d62240}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
hypervisorlaunchtype Auto
9. Type 'exit' without quotes to exit from command prompt, and restart Windows.
Upon booting you will be present with a new boot option to start Windows in configuration that allows you to install custom non-signed drivers.
Hope this will help anybody to create their own custom boot configurations.
Well this is the world we live in And these are the hands we're given...Hi,
Thank you for sharing the solutions & experience here. It will be very beneficial for other community members who have similar questions.
Regards,
Kelvin hsu
TechNet Community Support -
[SOLVED] Installing Windows XP after Arch Linux
I'm not sure at all where to post this, so I've decided to do it here since I have the problem on a laptop... Please move if it should be somewhere else.
I installed Arch Linux on my new laptop a month ago or so, and am very pleased to have found the very kind of distro I've been looking for. However, I'm having trouble with my graphics (either wine doesn't support it, or the drivers don't have 2D/3D acceleration), and now I want to install Windows XP next to Arch Linux.
Using a GParted LiveCD, I've repartitioned the harddrive as such: Unpartitioned Space (27GB), Linux (197GB), SWAP (5GB).
I've also removed the bootable flag from the Linux partition, just to be sure. However, when I try to install Windows XP, it gets stuck after unpacking a bunch of drivers, giving me a bluescreen that tells me to make sure the hardware isn't broken, check my harddrive with CHKDSK /F, or look for viruses. Ofcourse I know none of these are true, since I'm running Arch Linux just fine.
A friend suggested that maybe my hardware isn't supported by Windows XP, which sounds like the most reasonable explanation so far, but I can't find a list of supported hardware. The M$ homepage basicly says
"Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)"
for CPU, which doesn't help me at all.
My hardware is:
Processor: Intel Celeron 2.2 Ghz
Memory: 2GB DDR2
Graphics: Intel 4500MHD
And the laptop is called an "eMachines E525", though that doesn't say much since there are very, very many called this.
Can anyone give me any hints as to what I might be doing wrong?
Last edited by Noxic (2010-05-29 18:44:32)Sounds like something I'll want to do. Where did you download the drivers? Do I have to follow some guide? Thanks for the tip
EDIT:
Indeed I will want to install AHCI drivers, otherwise Arch Linux fails to boot quite badly. There is also a problem preventing me from booting when I'm using AHCI though;
At boot, Arch Linux checks /dev/sda1 (NTFS) for errors, and expects to check an ext2 filesystem. Obviously, however, /dev/sda1 is an NTFS filesystem.
Since it tries to read the NTFS partition as an ext2 filesystem, it panics. Arch Linux then prompts me for the root password (or Ctrl+D to reboot), but I've disabled root login and can therefore do nothing at this point.
I have a GParted livecd and the Arch Linux livecd, so editing files on any of the filesystem isn't a problem at all, but I don't know what to do at this point. Help?
Last edited by Noxic (2010-05-29 12:40:33) -
is there any way to get the server app other than through the app store. The system that I need it on are not connected to the internet.
We run a closed-loop network of apple systems and I tipically downloaded updates on a non-apple system that was on the internet.
Any ideas?I did buy the server app, went to the app store to download it. This system I'm using for downloads is Snow Leopard 10.6.8, it shows that I can download it but only as an Install which says I need 10.8. I can't seem to find a way for it to just download as a package or .dmg file so that I can copy it to DVD/CD or flash drive.
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Client Copy between unicode system and non-unicode system
Hello,
we have to build up a new system for japan. It is planned to install a new 4.7Ext200 unicode system and then make a client copy from a non-unicode 4.7Ext200 (language= german, english) system to the unicode system. I don't think that this is possible way, but I can't find information regarding client copies from non-unicode to unicode. I would advice the project to convert the existing non-unicode system to unicode, make a system copy for the new system and then install japan languages. Any information, which can help me.
Regards,
AlexanderHi,
without conversion client copy is not possible
look at following
Re: Client copy between unicode and Non-unicode
regards,
kaushal
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