A good place to start: Burning a RedHat CD HOWTO Morten Kjeldgaard, mok@xxxxxxxxxx and Peter von der Ahé, pahe+rhcd@xxxxxxxxxxx $Date: 2000/03/02 16:28:37 $ $Revision: 1.34 $ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/RedHat -CD-HOWTO.html Don Bodle The Reynolds and Reynolds Company Platform Development Phone: (937) 485-2954 -----Original Message----- From: Chris Rouch [mailto:cdvr@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 2:24 PM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: ks documentation and some questions Hello, Is there any documentation (official or otherwise) for the server side of the kickstart install? By this I mean details on how to customize installs, include updates, burn new cd's and so on. google finds bits and pieces, but I've yet to find anything like a howto (yes, I've seen the kickstart howto, but that doesn't really cover customization). I'm aiming towards a customized cd, with a bunch of non-redhat rpms as well as all the latest updates. I've mostly worked out how to do this by trial and error, but I'd like to be sure I know what I'm doing before I start turning CDs into coasters. I copy all the rpms that I want into a .../RedHat/RPMS directory. I run genhdlist - Can someone tells me what this does? I've read that I need to run it, but I'd like to know why. I edit .../RedHat/base/comps and take out all the rpms that I'm not going to install. I'm surprised that I need to do this, but if I leave them in, even the language specific ones, then I get a traceback once anaconda starts. I add my rpm bundles. I then install over nfs and 20 minutes later have a working system. So far so good. Now I want to turn it into a cd. I modify ks.cfg so that it installs from cdrom rather than nfs. Do I put ks.cfg in the root directory of the cd or somewhere else? Should I use boot.img or bootnet.img to create the cd? Is this how to make the cd image? mkisofs -b boot.img -c boot.cat -o /tmp/custom72.iso -r -T \ -p cdvr@xxxxxxxxx -P www.redhat.com \ -A Custom_7.2 -V RH7.2_CR . To boot, is it "linux ks=cdrom" or some other incantation? And is it possible to make this the default, so I can just power on and walk away? Any help, comment or pointers to online docs will be greatly appreciated Thanks and regards, Chris Rouch _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
