Actually, there is a *much* easier way to do this. On your NFS server
that you are doing the install from, make a directory under the i386
directory called "RHUpdates". Then, loopback mount the update disk .img
files and copy the contents (which should be some .py files) to the
RHUpdates directory. The installer should look in this directory for
the newer files and use those.
That way, the updates get applied for everyone doing installs from the
NFS server, and you only have to deal with the updates once (on the
server instead of the client).
Hope this helps,
Brent
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 15:44, Alf Wachsmann wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Anne Possoz wrote:
> > There are 2 update-disk in redhat-updates/7.2/en/os/images/i386
> > update-disk-20011009.img
> > update-disk-20020117.img
> >
> > but I am not sure I understand what to do with them and why there
> > are no anaconda rpms updates for the same corrections.
>
> All changes in update-disk-20011009.img are also in
> update-disk-20020117.img. So, just take the newer one.
>
> > Did RedHat forgot to provide some new rpms for network
> > installations?
>
> I guess so. I have updated the stuff myself. Here is the recipe I've
> used. Your path names may be different but you will get the idea.
>
> -- Alf.
>
>
> How to update RH 7.2 anaconda from updatedisk:
> ----------------------------------------------
> 0. mkdir -p /mnt/linux /mnt/linux1 /mnt/linux2 /tmp/LINUX1 /tmp/LINUX2
>
> 1. cp RedHat7.2/updates/en/os/images/i386/update-disk-20020117.img /tmp/.
> 2. mount /tmp/update-disk-20020117.img /mnt/linux -o loop
>
> 3. cp RedHat7.2/i386/images/netstg1.img /tmp/.
> 4. mount /tmp/netstg1.img /mnt/linux1 -o loop
> 5. cp -a /mnt/linux1/* /tmp/LINUX1/.
>
> 6. cp RedHat7.2/i386/RedHat/base/stage2.img /tmp/.
> 7. mount /tmp/stage2.img /mnt/linux2 -o loop
> 8. cp -a /mnt/linux2/* /tmp/LINUX2/.
>
> 9. cd /usr/lib/anaconda
> 10. copy over all new .py files from /mnt/linux/ to . or the appropriate
> subdirectories thereof
> 11. python /usr/lib/python1.5/compileall.py .
> 12. copy all new .py and .pyc files back to
> /tmp/LINUX{1,2}/usr/lib/anaconda/
> or the appropriate subdirectories thereof
> Warning: Do NOT copy the "anaconda" executable!!
>
> 13. mkcramfs --verbose /tmp/LINUX1/ /tmp/netstg1.img.NEW
> 14. mkcramfs --verbose /tmp/LINUX2/ /tmp/stage2.img.NEW
>
> 15. cd RedHat7.2/i386/RedHat/base
> 16. mv netstg1.img netstg1.img@`date "+%Y%m%d"`
> 17. mv /tmp/netstg1.img.NEW netstg1.img
> 18. mv stage2.img stage2.img@`date "+%Y%m%d"`
> 19. mv /tmp/stage2.img.NEW stage2.img (this can take a while!))
>
> 20. umount /mnt/linux ; umount /mnt/linux1 ; umount /mnt/linux2
> 21. rm -rf /tmp/LINUX*
>
>
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