OK, things are clicking now. Here is some info that I have found out while doing this. Most of you probably already know, but thought I would share. :) BTW, thanks to all that have put up with my stream of questions. Things you shouldn't do: Don't put your rpms in a samba share and expect to burn them from a Windows machine CD writer (this is probably obvious to everyone but me) Don't trust the mkickstart program to create an exact duplicate of the currently running system. It is just a really good start. Things you should do: Use the mkisofs command line to create the iso image....then you can use the Windows machine to burn the ISO image...this works great! I think you can't really do any good customization without genhdlist. This seems to be an integral part of the customization...unless you don't mind inserting two CD's :) I have include the scripts I have made to that help me make the boot disk and CD. The scripts I made are strictly for making a boot disk and to use a CD. Because I am not using genhdlist, it requires I insert the 2nd CD. Maybe Alan Cox - the author of mkkickstart - will consider adding something similar to this to his mkkickstart utility to help. I am working on making them nicer to use, but for now they work. Mike Barsalou Michael Barsalou barjunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
#!/bin/bash mount -o loop boot.img boot/ zcat boot/initrd.img > initrd.img mount -o loop initrd.img initrd/
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#!/bin/bash dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0
#!/bin/bash cp boot.img /samba/cdrom/images mkisofs -b images/boot.img -c boot.cat -J -L -r -T -v -o RH71-prntcntrlr.iso /samba/cdrom
#!/bin/bash cat /dev/zero > initrd/zerofile rm initrd/zerofile umount initrd gzip -9 initrd.img mv initrd.img.gz boot/initrd.img cp ks.cfg boot/ cp syslinux.cfg boot/ umount boot
Place these programs in the directory where you will be customizing your boot image: pack unpack makedisk makeiso configure README boot.cat Run the configure script to create the boot and initrd directories unpack - will loop mount the boot.img and initrd.img files pack - will put it all back to the boot.img makedisk - creates floppy with ks.cfg and syslinux.cfg add makeiso - creates iso image so that you can burn the cd (requires mkisofs rpm) boot.cat - needed for makeiso to work (I have no idea what this is for) Please look at the scripts before you use them so you can understand how they work. Mike Barsalou barjunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
default ks prompt 1 timeout 10 label ks kernel vmlinuz append ks=floppy initrd=initrd.img local
#!/bin/bash mkdir boot mkdir initrd
