Sure, the --withnumbers option is needed to rebuild the hdlist files. I can't remember where on the web I found it, but it wouldn't work without it. ;) And genhdlist is not exactly documented well either. I have never found a manpage for it. For us, I mentioned we used this genhdlist --withnumbers --hdlist RedHat/base/hdlist /var/ftp/pub/ia64 the --hdlist option points to your hdlist file. Normally, this will be in your distrodir/RedHat/base directory. For us, I have everything in /var/ftp/pub/ia64, and I run a script from there called generate.sh. So, my --hdlist is relative to that, but it could be fully qualified if you need it to be. The last option, /var/ftp/pub/ia64, is the top path to your distribution. As an example, say you want to update nfs-utils-0.3.3-5.i386.rpm with the latest nfs-utils-0.3.3-6.73.i386.rpm. This is an example, don't thrash me guys. :) Move the old rpm out of /var/ftp/pub/ia64/RedHat/RPMS, and move the new one into place. Then run genhdlist and you are good to go. The installer will automagically use the newer one, since you regenerated your hdlist files. However, this is where automrg comes in handy. It does the checking for old rpm's versus new ones for you. So, what I do is download all the updated rpm's to a directory, then run automrg against my distro directory. It compares that against the updated ones, and moves new ones into place if needed, purging the old ones. Then I run genhdlist and I have an updated ftp site for doing kickstart installs on our cluster. All of that is easily automated via cron or scripting. Hope that helps. Jason P Holland Texas Learning and Computation Center http://www.tlc2.uh.edu University of Houston Philip G Hoffman Hall rm 207A tel: 713-743-4850 cell: 281-451-5991 On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Robert Denton wrote: > Jason, I like you approach quite a bit. I downloaded and installed > genhdlist on my http install box and there doesn't seem to be a man page > with it. Nonetheless, once I get the syntax worked out, this should do the > trick. Until I locate a good online help page, could you clue me in to some > of the syntax? > > What does --withnumbers do? > Are there any help features with it at all? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Holland [mailto:jholland@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:31 PM > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Including nonstandard RPMs in the KS install > > > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet > Service. To view the original message content, open the attached message. > If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then > open it using a viewer that can display the original character set. > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
