At Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:31:08 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Robert Heller napsal(a):
I need to be able to install CentOS 5.2 on a machine with software RAID (and LVM) setup. I discovered (the hard way!) that there is a bug in the mkinitrd package that causes it to enter an endless loop when there are /dev/mapper/ devices present during the install process. There is a patch to mkinitrd, which I applied and created a new rpm for mkinitrd with this patch applied. I'd like to now create a alternitive install CD, but I am not sure of the exact mkisofs command line to properly create a bootable CD.
I am also not sure if I need to update any of the files the installer uses to install the system -- is it enough to just drop the alternitive mkinitrd rpm? Do I need to rebuild any of the other files on the CD?
Robert, go with Revisor http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb/stable/i386/repodata/repoview/revisor-0-2.0... http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb/stable/x86_64/repodata/repoview/revisor-0-2... David Hrbáč
This seems overly complex for my needs. 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. I have copied the CD's directory tree to a writable file system and replaced the rpm in question. I now need to just make a new ISO file and all I need is the proper command line arguments to mkisofs to do this. I am *NOT* creating a new distribution. And I really don't want to mess with a complex GUI program or edit many configuration files.
I would also rather do this on my CentOS 4.7 system (revisor does not seem to be available for CentOS 4 / RHEL 4). Running it on a diskless workstation with a read-only root file system is a total pain. And will become even more painful when I then have to mount a large file system with NFS.
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