On 10/30/2014 10:59 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: > > > On 10/28/2014 10:49 AM, Steven Falco wrote: >> I am interested in generating a spin of CentOS 7, but I'm >> having trouble identifying the correct tool to compose an >> ISO image. > > For what reason? Is this something that would benefit others > (could/Should it be a sig?) I have been asked to create a customized install DVD that would automatically install - i.e. use a custom kickstart file. To do that, I would add the ks file to the isolinux directory, and patch isolinux.cfg to pass my ks file to anaconda via the kernel cmd line. I can do that manually by manipulating the official iso file. It is a lengthy series of steps, extracting the squashfs.img file, then the rootfs.img, then making my changes, and finally putting everything back together. In short, a total kludge. :-) Instead, I'd like to be able to reproduce the method by which the official iso file is constructed. I'd want to be able to do that on my local machine rather than using any CentOS resources, because I don't think this particular spin would be of any interest to the community. However, the method of generating a custom DVD probably would be of interest to a lot of people. I've actually made a fair amount of progress in the last few days. First, I used pungi to reconstruct a Fedora 20 iso which taught me how that process works. It also gave me a good log file of a successful pungi build. Then, I tried making that same process work on CentOS 7. I ran into some issues, because the c7 kernel doesn't include HFSPLUS support (which is needed by isohybrid - long story). I hacked around that by modifying some parts of pungi and lorax to remove the HFSPLUS requirement. I am also exploring building the HFSPLUS kernel module, so I don't have to hack up pungi / lorax. But back to my question to this list. Are the pungi and lorax tools part of the official CentOS build process? If so, then I assume there must be customized version of them, given the problems I saw with HFSPLUS. If different tools are used instead of pungi / lorax, then what are those tools? Are they documented? Can I help with the documentation of them? Steve -- A: Because it makes the logic of the discussion difficult to follow. Q: Why shouldn't I top post? A: No. Q: Should I top post? ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________