Re: [CentOS] Creating an alternitive install CD for CentOS 5.2 (w/ patched mkinitrd)

At Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:39:00 +0000 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

Robert Heller wrote:

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I don't want (or need) to rebuild all 6 of the install CDs. I just want to *replace* one RPM on the first CD.

the installer supports external repo's - at install time. All you then need is to provide a new repo, with a higher EVR for mkinitrd.

I am not sure how to do this and did not know it was possible -- there is nothing obvious in the install menus that suggest this. I do prefer the 'text' based install. Also, in the case of my home system, the external repo would *have* be on the local disk somewhere, since I don't have any other machines available on my LAN and the the only external Internet option is dialup.