On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:40:40PM +0100, Milan Kerslager wrote:
>
> I have a problem with creating modified distribution (subset of Fedora,
> RHEL3, RH9, RawHide and own packages) for kickstart server. FTP
> installation crash just 20% after "Preparing RPM transaction" (no
> traceback, only shutting down...)
I tryed to make ISO file with anaconda from Fedora Core 1 and from
anaconda from RHEL3 and I have got the same Anaconda crash (installation
exited abnormally or so).
Could be the problem in signing packages by my own key?
> This is what I did:
>
> export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda
> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime:/usr/share/comps-extras
> export BASEDIR=/var/ftp/pub/linux/mydist/i386
>
> # copy RedHat/RPMS/* and RedHat/base/comps.xml to $BASEDIR
>
> genhdlist --withnumbers --productpath RedHat $BASEDIR
> pkgorder $BASEDIR i386 > /tmp/pkgorder.txt
> getfullcomps.py comps.xml $BASEDIR i386 > /tmp/comps.temp
> # no error mesage here
>
> pushd /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime
> buildinstall --comp $BASEDIR/HLinux/base/comps.xml \
> --pkgorder /tmp/pkgorder.txt --version 1 \
> --product "MyDist" --release 1 $BASEDIR
>
> # at this point I tryed to install from FTP server via boot.iso
>
> splittree.py --arch=i386 --total-discs=6 --bin-discs=3 --src-discs=3
> --release-string="HLinux" --pkgorderfile=/tmp/pkgorder.txt
> --distdir=$BASEDIR --srcdir=$BASEDIR/SRPMS
>
> genhdlist --withnumbers $BASEDIR-disc[1..3]
cd $BASEDIR-disc1
mkisofs -f -J -r -joliet-long -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boot \
-boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table . > ../test.iso
cdrecord fs=50m -dev=0,0,0 -v -eject ../test.iso
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Milan Kerslager
E-mail: milan.kerslager@xxxxxxxx
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