[CentOS] Building a live CD and live PXE

Sat Aug 12 11:21:25 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 07:51 -0300, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/12/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
>         On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 15:49 +0100, Ron Yorston wrote:
>         > "Eduardo Grosclaude" <eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com> wrote:
>         > >Great! I was just looking for this! Unfortunately there
>         seems to be 
>         > >something missing: by the time we run the first yum
>         command, there's no
>         > >distroverpkg package installed under $LIVE to query for
>         $releasever.
>         > >---------------
>         > >Should the user install centos-release RPM with prefix
>         equal to $LIVE 
>         > >beforehand?
>         > >Or is there any other easy but correct way to pass this
>         variable to yum?
>         >
>         > I got around this by editing my yum repo files to replace
>         $releasever
>         > with 4.  Which is horrible, so I too would like to know if
>         there's a 
>         > better way.
>         >
>         > I still can't get it to work, though.  I do get about 90MB
>         of stuff
>         > installed, as promised, but there are lots of '%post(...)
>         scriptlet
>         > failed' messages during the installation.  Although many
>         things are 
>         > installed into the chroot area there are clearly some things
>         missing.
>         > The first command I typed in the chroot was 'ls',
>         but /bin/ls isn't
>         > there even though, according to yum.log, coreutils was
>         installed. 
>         >
>         > Actually, I was able to scroll back far enough to see this
>         during the
>         > installation:
>         >
>         > error: %pre(coreutils-5.2.1-31.2.i386) scriptlet failed,
>         exit status 255
>         > error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping
>         coreutils-5.2.1-31.2
>         >
>         > Ron
>         
>         If you can install centos-release into the chroot, it should
>         then return
>         4.
>         
>         Or editing the yum repo file and addding 4 is OK.
> 
> I downloaded the latest centos-release rpm and tried to install it
> into $LIVE with rpm relocate feature. This has to be done with --force
> as rpm thinks it is already installed. Despite the rpm being "no
> relocatable" as per "rpm -qpi", this works, populating $LIVE/etc and
> friends. 
> However, after this, yum keeps giving the same error as before. 
> 
> 
> Brutally replacing $releasever by "4" in CentOS-Base.repo seems to
> convince yum to work.
> But then doing "yum -c $LIVE/etc/yum.conf --installroot=$LIVE install
> centos-release" proceeds to _install_ the same package that rpm had
> previously _installed_... hmmmm... :P
> 
> -- 

when using RPM to install centos-release initially ... use the --root
function like this:

rpm -ivh --root $LIVE centos-release

That SHOULD work.

I haven't studied John's scripts .. but also important is properly
mounting /dev, /proc, /sys into the chroot as well.
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