On 04/10/2011 07:01 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:31:43 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi all,
Probably a simple question, but, I'd like to merge both install DVDs into one directory on my PXE server. Obviously I will need to copy all of the files, but do I need to cast a magical incantation to recreate .discinfo, .treeinfo, etc?
If all you want to do is create a PXE server that can be used to install using NFS, you just need the DVD (or CD) .iso files in some NFS exported (read-only!) directory. Loopback mount the first DVD/CD and copy the image froms from images/pxeboot to /tftpboot and put entries in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default, and the right 'magic' in /etc/dhcpd.conf and you are good to go.
I've done that (well, minus NFS). I can easily enough install without the second DVD ISO, as the servers won't have openoffice anyway.
My question was more a point of curiosity. I supposed I could have said "how can I merge the two ISOs into one" and gotten matching answers. So then, the real question is; How can I recreate the package list that is found in the ISO that anaconda uses to know what packages are available?
Cheers!