Hi,
Before I start, I took the liberty of CC'ing list, I wish others find
this useful.
This procedure works with Redhat 8, but would work with older/newer
versions as well with minor modifications. (note: use it entirely at
your own risk!)
1) Start with a fully installed redhat system. (from the cdroms, but I
doubt that it matters).
2) Copy the whole contents of cdroms into some publicly (NFS/FTP/HTTP)
accessible directory on my system (obviously, open to our intranet) on
say, /home/ftp/pub/myredhat.
3) Install the anaconda source rpm. Do your modifications to it
(_whatever_ they maybe.)
4) Build the binary rpms of anaconda (named anaconda-runtime and anaconda).
5) (Not really sure this step is necessary): install the binary rpms on
your system.
6) Copy the binary rpms to /home/ftp/pub/myredhat/RedHat/RPMS/
(make sure you get rid of the old ones)
7) (assuming i386 architecture): Run this script:
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ARCH=i386
LOCATION=/home/ftp/pub/myredhat/
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/X11R6/lib/"
pkgorder $LOCATION i386 > $LOCATION/../package-order
genhdlist --withnumbers --fileorder $LOCATION/../package-order $LOCATION
ARCH=i386 ./buildinstall --comp $LOCATION/RedHat/base/comps.xml
--pkgorder $LOCATION/../package-order --version 0.99 --release
"my-custom-redhat" $LOCATION
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After this, installer images would be (hopefully) available on
/home/ftp/pub/myredhat/{images,RedHat/base}
There are other excellent pieces of documentation available at:
*http://www.linuxworks.com.au/redhat-installer-howto.html*
Brian Harvell wrote:
Do you have any documentation for the procedures you use? I normally just
add things to an update image that gets loaded and I haven't bothered trying
anything else. Anaconda is rather temper-mental so I would rather not try to
figure it out on my own :)
Thanks
Brian
