alex at milivojevic.org wrote: > Quoting "dan.trainor" <dan.trainor at gmail.com>: > >> Hey there, Johnny - >> >> I've been playing around for the past few days with the info that you >> have provided, and it has been a great help. I'd like to thank you for >> that. >> >> However, I'm still just a bit confused. >> >> My problem is, that I don't need to create a whole new distribution, but >> rather, just remaster the data on an ISO that I've made of all the >> packages I'll be needing, including editing comps.xml and generating >> base/hdlist{2} files from the editing. As far as I can gather, this is >> a lot to ask. >> >> Would you mind me asking where you gathered the information to create >> this script, or like everyone else, did you hear from a friend of a >> friend who's cousin found a note written by someone who used to work for >> RedHat that had a friend that made these distributions? That's the >> story I hear every single time. >> >> For something so critical, I don't know why this process is so cryptic. >> Anaconda and kickstart installations have tremendous power, and it's >> all going to waste becase only a small handfull of people can actually >> pull it off. > > > While Fedora's Wiki could have more usefull documentation, there are > some very > usefull links: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnancondaUsefulLinks > > For example, the very first link is to an article from Linux Journal. > It deals > with Red Hat 8.0, but most of it is still applicable to Fedora Core > and/or Red > Hat Enterprise Linux. > > So, yeah, the information is scattered all around and scarce, but with > more or > less research, most of it is out there somewhere ;-) > Hey there, Alex - I've gotten a bit farther since we had last talked. However, I'm getting stuck now during the Anaconda install. If you (or anyone else out there) wouldn't mind taking a moment to tell me what I'm doing wrong, I'd greatly appreciate it. Here's some info to help the situation: comps.xml: http://pastebin.com/309018 Anaconda VC1: http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/4018/screenshot5sd.png Anaconda VC3: http://img298.imageshack.us/img298/816/screenshot10dx.png comps.xml is comprised of a slimming down of the @base and @core groups, in addition to adding a few RPMs that I had made. I created what I think was all needed by using the following commands: genhdlist --withnumbers --productpath=CentOS /tmp/centos-1/ pkgorder /tmp/centos-1 i386 >/tmp/pkgorder.txt genhdlist --withnumbers --productpath=CentOS --fileorder=/tmp/pkgorder.txt /tmp/centos-1 buildinstall --comp dist-4.0 --pkgorder /tmp/pkgorder.txt --release "CentOS-4 i386" --product "CentOS-4 i386" --version 4 `pwd` That's all I've got for now. Please let me know if I can provide some more information. Thanks! -dant
