Hi, just some script built along: Unattended install & run CentOS-4.1 just using chroot(1). Mostly a surprise for me it was so easy to reach that goal. It requires rpm(1) based host OS and it was tested only on Fedora Core 4. I needed it to do only a bit customized CentOS kernel package rebuild. Regards, Lace -------------- next part -------------- #! /bin/bash # Bootstrap for: CentOS-4.1 # $Id: centos-bootstrap,v 1.4 2005/09/03 03:07:17 short Exp $ # Latest: # http://cvs.jankratochvil.net/viewcvs/nethome/src/centos-bootstrap?rev=HEAD RPMS_URL_BASE=http://rsync.atworks.co.jp/centos/4.1/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS if test $# != 1;then echo >&2 "Syntax: $0 <target-root-directory(DELETED!)>";exit 1;fi ROOT="$1" if test "${ROOT#/}" = "$ROOT";then echo >&2 "Absolute pathname required: $ROOT";exit 1;fi cd / umount $ROOT/proc set -ex KEY=/tmp/centos-bootstrap-$$-key rm -rf $KEY trap 'rm -f $KEY' EXIT mkdir $KEY cd $KEY # wget(1) due to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167483 wget -q -O - $RPMS_URL_BASE/centos-release-4-1.2.i386.rpm | rpm2cpio | cpio -id rm -rf $ROOT mkdir -p $ROOT/{etc,dev} awk '/^[ \t]*[^#]/ { if ($2 == "/") { print; }}' </etc/fstab >$ROOT/etc/fstab cp -a /dev/{null,urandom,random} `awk '/^[ \t]*[^#]/ { if ($2 == "/") { print $1; }}' </etc/fstab` $ROOT/dev/ rpm --root=$ROOT --initdb rpm --root=$ROOT --import $KEY/usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/RPM-GPG-KEY rm -rf $KEY cd $RPMS # For rpm(1) http:// downloads: mkdir -p $ROOT/var/tmp RPM=rpm while read -r key val;do if test -n "$val";then RPM="$RPM $key $val";fi done <<EOH --httpproxy `echo $http_proxy|sed -n 's#^[^/]*//\([^:/]*\).*$#\1#p'` --httpport `echo $http_proxy|sed -n 's#^[^/]*//[^:/]*:\([^/]*\).*$#\1#p'` --ftpproxy `echo $ftp_proxy|sed -n 's#^[^/]*//\([^:/]*\).*$#\1#p'` --ftpport `echo $ftp_proxy|sed -n 's#^[^/]*//[^:/]*:\([^/]*\).*$#\1#p'` EOH # rpm(8) $RPM --root=$ROOT -i `set +x;while read -r line;do echo $RPMS_URL_BASE/$line;done <<EOH rpm-4.3.3-9_nonptl.i386.rpm bash-3.0-19.2.i386.rpm glibc-2.3.4-2.9.i686.rpm beecrypt-3.1.0-6.i386.rpm mktemp-1.5-20.i386.rpm libgcc-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm basesystem-8.0-4.noarch.rpm filesystem-2.3.0-1.i386.rpm setup-2.5.37-1.1.noarch.rpm glibc-common-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm popt-1.9.1-9_nonptl.i386.rpm shadow-utils-4.0.3-41.1.i386.rpm coreutils-5.2.1-31.1.i386.rpm pam-0.77-66.5.i386.rpm libselinux-1.19.1-7.i386.rpm sed-4.1.2-4.i386.rpm cracklib-2.7-29.i386.rpm db4-4.2.52-7.1.i386.rpm initscripts-7.93.13.EL-2.centos4.i386.rpm kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm sysklogd-1.4.1-26_EL.i386.rpm util-linux-2.12a-16.EL4.6.i386.rpm grep-2.5.1-31.i386.rpm gawk-3.1.3-10.1.i386.rpm libstdc++-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm glib2-2.4.7-1.i386.rpm module-init-tools-3.1-0.pre5.3.i386.rpm mkinitrd-4.2.1.3-1.i386.rpm net-tools-1.60-37.EL4.6.i386.rpm e2fsprogs-1.35-12.1.EL4.i386.rpm findutils-4.1.20-7.i386.rpm ncurses-5.4-13.i386.rpm ethtool-1.8-4.i386.rpm tzdata-2005f-1.EL4.noarch.rpm pcre-4.5-3.i386.rpm gzip-1.3.3-13.i386.rpm lvm2-2.01.08-1.0.RHEL4.i386.rpm less-382-4.i386.rpm chkconfig-1.3.13.2-1.i386.rpm cpio-2.5-7.EL4.1.i386.rpm device-mapper-1.01.01-1.RHEL4.i386.rpm tar-1.14-4.i386.rpm readline-4.3-13.i386.rpm info-4.7-5.i386.rpm zlib-1.2.1.2-1.i386.rpm centos-release-4-1.2.i386.rpm cracklib-dicts-2.7-29.i386.rpm mingetty-1.07-3.i386.rpm iputils-20020927-16.i386.rpm rpm-libs-4.3.3-9_nonptl.i386.rpm bzip2-libs-1.0.2-13.i386.rpm libacl-2.2.23-5.i386.rpm libtermcap-2.0.8-39.i386.rpm libattr-2.4.16-3.i386.rpm termcap-5.4-3.noarch.rpm elfutils-libelf-0.97-5.i386.rpm psmisc-21.4-4.i386.rpm iproute-2.6.9-3.i386.rpm procps-3.2.3-8.1.i386.rpm SysVinit-2.85-34.i386.rpm libsepol-1.1.1-2.i386.rpm udev-039-10.8.EL4.i386.rpm MAKEDEV-3.15-2.i386.rpm hotplug-2004_04_01-7.5.i386.rpm usbutils-0.11-6.1.i386.rpm hwdata-0.146.10.EL-1.noarch.rpm wget-1.9.1-17.i386.rpm openssl-0.9.7a-43.2.i686.rpm krb5-libs-1.3.4-12.i386.rpm EOH ` chroot $ROOT /bin/rpm --rebuilddb # Do not install yum(8) just by 'rpm --root', later --rebuilddb would: # rpmdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version # FIXME: Analyse and bugreport: # On "http" installation AND using --httpproxy: CentOS-4.1 rpm-4.3.3-9_nonptl would crash: # warning: package yum = 2.2.1-1.centos4 was already added, replacing with yum <= 2.2.1-1.centos4 # ... # error: Failed dependencies: # /usr/bin/python is needed by yum-2.2.1-1.centos4.noarch # ... # while with FC4 rpm-4.4.1-22 it would work fine (it would just corrupt 'rpmdb' here). # yum(8) lines="`cat <<EOH yum-2.2.1-1.centos4.noarch.rpm python-2.3.4-14.1.i386.rpm rpm-python-4.3.3-9_nonptl.i386.rpm libxml2-python-2.6.16-6.i386.rpm gmp-4.1.4-3.i386.rpm libxml2-2.6.16-6.i386.rpm elfutils-0.97-5.i386.rpm binutils-2.15.92.0.2-13.i386.rpm gdbm-1.8.0-24.i386.rpm centos-yumconf-4-4.2.noarch.rpm EOH `" chroot $ROOT /usr/bin/wget -nv `set +x;for line in $lines;do echo $RPMS_URL_BASE/$line;done` chroot $ROOT /bin/rpm -i $lines chroot $ROOT /bin/rm -f $lines chroot $ROOT /usr/bin/yum -y update # For: kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm chroot $ROOT /usr/bin/yum -y install `cat <<EOH rpm-build bzip2 m4 make gnupg kernel-utils gcc redhat-rpm-config diffutils EOH ` echo OK