Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article > <2181C5F19DD0254692452BFF3EAF1D6803940E22 at rsys005a.comm.ad.roke.co.uk>, > Plant, Dean <dean.plant at roke.co.uk> wrote: >> >> If like me you have never had to mess with the stage2.img file to fix >> installations issues, below shows what is required. >> >> cd ~ >> wget http://yourwebserver/centos5-dvd/images/stage2.img >> mkdir tmp >> mount -t squashfs -o loop stage2.img ./tmp >> cd tmp >> vi ./usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py # comment out >> dispatch.skipStep("network") at around line 876 or use Ray's patch. > > hmm, isn't this editing the file on a read-only file system? Oops......yes, not going to do much good editing the ro file system! Sorry. > >> mkdir ../new-stage2 >> tar cf - . | ( cd ../new-stage2/ ; tar xf - . ) > > I suspect here is where you need to cd ../new-stage2 and edit > kickstart.py > >> cd .. >> yum -y install squashfs-tools >> mksquashfs ./new-stage2/ stage2.img.new >> >> Now replace the stage2.img file on the web server with the >> stage2.img.new file, renamed to stage2.img of course. > > Cheers > Tony