Oisin Mulvihill wrote: > Hi, > > dvd isn't an option at the moment and won't happen at all for the > existing 70+ kiosks I have at present. > > My main problem is I follow the process to produce the distro, > but I can't get the tools show me the rpms I don't need. I don't > know whether my comps.xml is the problem or its just a problem > with the getnotincomps.py. The getnotincomps.py seems to be failing > because it can't find dependancies for each package in I mention > in the comps.xml. Why this is the case I don't know as getfullcomps.py > seems to be working fine along with the other stages up to running > getnotincomps.py. > > Does anyone have more detailed instructions for producing a single > disk install with anaconda? > > Thanks, > > om > > On 13 Jul 2005, at 04:31, John Summerfied wrote: > >> Oisin Mulvihill wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> >>>> Have you considered setting up a network mirror and reducing the CD >>>> need >>>> down to the 5mb boot image? Since it's an internet kiosk, I assume >>>> you have >>>> network connectivity. This'd save you a lot of the work it looks >>>> like you're >>>> doing. >>> >>> When my main customer installs the kiosks, they don't connect to a >>> network >>> usually (despite what my documentation says). They usually just >>> connect them >>> to the adsl router they'll get deployed with, but its not connected >>> out. When >>> they put the machines out on site they just want to plug-in-and-go. >>> They are >>> also not very technical. Even though my install does 99% of the work >>> for them, >>> the still manage to get it wrong. I thought about this solution, but >>> went >>> against it as it would cause me a lot of head aches and support calls. >> >> >> How about >> 1. A tool such as systemimager? >> 2. A DVD? >> 3. A DVD configured to boot as an install server? >> 4. dd if=kiosk.img of=/dev/hda >> >> There's a barebones CD around that might serve as a basis for 3. and 4.. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Cheers >> John Hello, Oisin - What I've been doing, is an HTTP-based kickstart, parsing the logs of the files that were downloaded for the install that I had configured, then simply copied those files and only those files to by "real" RPMS/ directory. I realize that you don't want to do network kickstart installs for all these kiosks. What I'm saying is, at least do a single HTTP-based install, watch your web server logs, find out which RPMs and only which RPMs are installed by your kickstart configuration, and use those and only those RPMs in your RPMS/ archive. I've never, to this day, gotten getnotincomps.py to work. Hope this helps -dant
