Add me to the list of interested people. I would love to see that script when you are done with it. Ron Reed On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:02, Lynn, Michael (IDS DM&DS) wrote: > 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/> > > ============================================================================== > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- =========================== Ron Reed RedHat Certified Engineer SGP Computer Department Manager Unix Systems Administrator ARM SGP CART Site (580)388-4053 ron.reed@xxxxxxx
