At Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:31:08 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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-0-2.0.5.2-2.el5.hrb.html > http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb/stable/x86_64/repodata/repoview/revisor-0-2.0.5.2-2.el5.hrb.html > David HrbÃ¡Ä 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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/