Thanx for giving me hepl on this one, but I've came up with a solution that seems to work rather good. To make the installation CD as small as possible - without having to tamper with a proxy server - I initiated a standard installation and simply removed everything. Since RH9 implicitly adds the base packages the installation succeeded annyway. I then copied over the "/root/install.log" and the "/root/anaconda-ks.cfg" to a floppy. Using the install.log file, I removed - manually - all packages that were on the CD#1 of RedHat 9 but didn't appear in the "install.log". That left me with approx 100 rpms and took about 270MB space including the base. >From there a run "genhdlist" (with some parameters) copied back the "anaconda-ks.cfg" to my isolinux root directory, created the isoimage with "mkisofs" and burned the CD. This was both simple and worked perfectly with a minimum of effort.... I can summarize my learnings about creating kickstart CD on redhat as following: 1. Create or reuse a anaconda-ks.cfg 1.b. make sure the rpms are present in the RedHat/RPMS dir. 2. generate a new "hdlist" file with "genhdlist". 3. copy the "anaconda-ks.cfg" into the root directory to the iso-diri (ks.cfg). 4. make the iso with mkisofs 5. burn the CD. 6. boot the CD with "linux ks=cdrom:./ks.cfg ta da! /Erik Lonroth 5. On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 03:02:40PM +0800 or thereabouts, John wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Erik Lonroth wrote: > > > Hi you all! > > > > I need a little help on creating a customized kickstart CD > > that need to be stripped down to a minimal of rpms on > > the CD. > > > > I have made a working kickstart CD using the RH9 "minimal" > > option - copying the anaconda-ks.cfg, generated the hdlist > > and burned the iso that works. > > > > My problem is that I can see that a lot of un-nessesary rpms > > are still left on the CD that are never installed (according > > to "/root/install.log". I compared the "install.log" to the > > RPMS directory and removed ALL other rpms and rebuilt the > > CD, hdlist and tried to boot. It didn't even get to the > > boot: promt... > > > > What am I doing wrong here? How do I strip down the CD to > > a minimum of rpms?!?!? > > An excellent way to get an authorative list of the packages and other > files you use is to do an HTTP install using a proxy web server - Squid > and Apache will both do fine. > > You then analyse the log to discover all the files you used. > > > > > /Erik Lonroth > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > > > -- > Please, reply only to the list. > > Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at > http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
