Martin, Just registering my extreme interest in your script... thanks for the offer and associated effort. Regards, Mike -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Martin Robb Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 6:04 PM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: genhdlist problems under RHEL3 I have a script which takes a ks.cfg file and a set of install CDs, reads the package and rpm list from the ks.cfg file, and extracts the infrastructure and the corresponding RPMs from the install CDs into an ISO file which can be used to roast an install CD. It all works very nicely under Fedora Core 2 using the FC2 install CDs. The same script can be used with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 install CDs to build an ISO file. The only tweaks were 1) replacing references to the Fedora subdirectory with the RedHat subdirectory, 2) omitting the --productpath argument to genhdlist since RHEL3 anaconda doesn't understand it. Although everything appears to work properly, during the install I get an error window: "Error: An error occurred unmounting the CD. Please make sure you're not accessing /mnt/source from the shell on tty2 and then click OK to retry." When I switch to tty2 I find that /mnt/source does not exist as a directory and nothing is mounted there. I can create the directory and mount /dev/hda as /mnt/source, but the install continues to give errors. The difficulty appears to be introduced by genhdlist. If I comment that out and leave the RHEL3 hdlist file, the resulting CD is useable as a first install CD, though the other RHEL disks are necessary since hdlist thinks some of the RPMs are on them. The genhdlist call isn't giving me any errors and the same logic is working under FC2. Any ideas what the problem may be? Thanks, Martin Robb PS: once I get it firing on all cylinders, I can post the script to the list if there is interest. It uses the comps.xml file to convert package names to a list of rpms (though not recursively), it understands the rather large set of rpms that seem to be "implied" under RHEL3 and FC2 without being explicitly listed in comps.xml, and it can handle local additions or overrides to the rpm list. _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list ============================================================================== If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. <http://www.ml.com/email_terms/> ==============================================================================
