[CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

Tru Huynh tru at centos.org
Fri Jun 19 15:21:43 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:00:53PM +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> > Behalf Of Chadley Wilson
> > Sent: 19 June 2009 03:56 PM
> > To: CentOS mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD
> >
> > >
> > > well, you can always just give the cutomer a USB key :)
> > >
> > > - KB
> > [CW] Nope I am afraid we don't do business that way, it would be nice
> > though... unfortunately I don't get to decide...
> >
> >
> > Good news however I am testing my first rebuilt disc...
> [CW] Does anyone here know where on the install disc the
> initrd-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.img is located?  Is it in an rpm? which one?
the one in /boot/... it's generated at install time by the anaconda installer,
from the kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.$arch.rpm and mkinitrd

So you will need the re-run a mkinitrd after the %post install
with the right argument... and if you can make anaconda recognize
your hardware...

Wouldn't it be faster to move to 5.3 (if your cdrom is supported?).
> 
> I plan to dl the source rpm and patch it properly so not to worry.
> 
> FYI - I know this is not the fun way of doing things, and I read many
> responses to other posts where the outcome is "But why do it that way?" there
> are two reasons why I am doing it the hard way. the first is for me, I want
> to learn how. The second is that we often have to add drivers to Linux
> systems to get them to install. So it is a necessary requirement for me to
> know how to do this.

http://dup.et.redhat.com/
http://www.kerneldrivers.org/RedHatKernelModulePackages

> 
> Your input on my above question would be greatly appreciated... TIA
> 
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Tru
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