got virtualbox working

[mindwave]

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Creating initrd: [ 95.51% 00:00:03/00:00:03]sh: line 1: 7782 Broken pipe /bin/zcat //tmp/initrd.gz 2>/dev/nulltmp/mklivecd.7622/livecd/isolinux/ ...

7783 Segmentation fault | /bin/cpio -t >&/dev/null

bootsplash not found in //tmp/initrd.gz

[100.00% 00:00:08/00:00:08]

running: chkconfig --add harddrake with root /

Setting filesystem parameters: [100.00% 00:00:46/00:01:17]

Creating compressed image: [100.00% 00:23:05/00:23:23]

Creating isolinux boot: [100.00% 00:00:01/00:00:01]

Creating final iso: [100.00% 00:00:00/00:00:00]

ls: dvd.iso: No such file or directory

Argument "" isn't numeric in division (/) at /usr/sbin/mklivecd line 230.

 

Created 'dvd.iso' (0,000 bytes) in 00:26:12

 

 

 

 

 

any ideas?

[chris:b]

What has virtualbox to do with building an iso?

 

You don't have enough space for building a dvd iso or the size is too big or something like that.

I can't help with building these huge images. I always try to build live isos as small as possible. :D

 

If you see error messages, please provide the 'full' build command that you use. Also the output of df.

Edited August 11, 2007 by chris:b

[mindwave]

thats interesting

 

because it just started after the vbox install

 

its a 53gb drive, that has been yielding 1.2gb ISO's

 

only 11gb shows used, but that still too big, wonder whats taking all the space.

 

the command line is:

 

mklivecd --verbose dvd.iso

[mindwave]

well SOMEThing has certainly increased my "size" just a properties of the working dirs shows 4.4gb which is MUCH bigger than it used to be

[mindwave]

you know it seems to me that failed builds, used to build up somewhere, but now i'm not finding them in my tmp dirs.....

[chris:b]

only 11gb shows used, but that still too big, wonder whats taking all the space.

 

11 GB ? Wow. These can't be installed applications.

11 GB is too much to build a live dvd. The compression rate is 35 - 40 %.

Your final iso is just too big.

 

Check your installation, old isos lying around, or video files or music files. Clean the stuff.

You should never start a mklivecd build command without performing a df on the target system.

[chris:b]

Failed builts are in /tmp/mklivecd.XXX

 

Delete them all.

 

And you sure have some old isos, somewhere. When you work as a user they are in your /home/user directory. Unless you opened a terminal in a different directory.

[chris:b]

And in case you have created a vbox image, a virtual disk image, start Virtual Box, go to: File --> Virtual Disk manager, and delete this big image.

You may want to corntrol, where you created the vdisk, most likely in in the invisible /home/user/.VirtualBox --> look at the sub dirs.

[mindwave]

well i did a search for iso' and there arent any. i killed the vbox image before i started, so now i have to look through the temos, strangely enough, even though it starts to say it is, it never does write the final iso