[Revisor-users] missing swapon, swapoff, top, vmstat on install media

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

G. Michael Carter wrote:
> Build Machine: Fedora 7 x86_64
> Target Machine: Fedora 8 i386
> Revisor version: 2.0.5-7.fc7
> Revisor CMD Line: revisor --cli --yes --model=f8-i386
> --kickstart=/u2/FedoraYumRepo/Revisor/f8_ks.cfg
> --working-directory=/srv/revisor/tmp/working --install-dvd-dl
> --kickstart-include --kickstart-default
> 
> I've been trying to build a F8 with all my custom bells and whistles.   
> I've been testing it in a Virtual machine with 256M of ram.  Everything
> worked great.
> 
> So backed up my laptop and cut a DVD.   When I tried to put it on my
> laptop. It got as far as the formating drive screen then complained that
> swapoff was missing.   After looking more closely most of the files in
> /usr/bin, /usr/sbin etc are missing compared to my F7 copy.  (couldn't run
> top, vmstat or any of my normal monitoring tools either)
> 
> I did manage to get it running by putting mem=256 in the kernel parameter
> line.  I'm guessing that much over that and it tries to turn off the swap.
>   So I'm not stuck at the moment.
> 
> However, why are so many files missing in the core directories?

I'm not sure. The error about 'swapoff' not existing occured to me once, 
but when I tried to reproduce I couldn't.

I verified on another console while still keeping the failed 
installation process running, and swapoff was there (as well as swapon 
and the other tools you mention).

Now regarding your email I'm confused what your results were. Are you 
missing swapon/swapoff/vmstat/top on the installed system once the 
installation was complete, or are you missing them while running the 
installation process?

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip