Hi Casey, Here is a script that worked for me. It may have bugs in it since I mostly did the activities by hand and used the script as a start on documentation. The only issue I have with this procedure is that it installs too much stuff and I haven't figured out how to delete rpms and still have the dependencies correct. If you happen to figure out how to do that, I'd be interested in hearing about it. Regards, - Harper Harper Mann Groundwork Open Source Solutions 510-599-2075 (cell) http://itgroundwork.com -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Casey Feskens Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:44 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RHEL3 genhdlist I've recently been trying to add a couple custom packages to my RHEL3 install tree for use with kickstart. I've run into problems, and have found no clear and definitive instructions nor documentation about the listed commands so I'm turning here for help. I've tried a couple rounds of this. The first time, I edited comps.xml, and then simply ran: /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist $rhroot ...ran my kickstart and ended up with a system without kernel packages. Found some additional instructions, and ran: /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist $rhroot /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder $rhroot i386 > $rhroot/RedHat/base/pkgorder /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --fileorder $rhroot/RedHat/base/pkgorder $rhroot Using pkgorder first was helpful, as I ended up with a booting system, but it seemed that my RPM database was corrupt or some such thing, because up2date hung, and rpm commands seemed to segfault, even rpm --rebuilddb segfaulted. Going back to the stock redhat base files gave me a working installation again. So now I'm stuck. According to a couple posts I've read, some people suggest running genhdlist with --withnumbers for RHEL3. And another post I saw suggested running ./buildinstall after genhdlist. I'm assuming people on this list have gotten this stuff working under RHEL3. Does anyone have a definitive example for what the procedure is under RHEL3? Are these commands documented anywhere? Thanks for any help you may be able to provide. Take care, -- --------------------------------------------- Casey Feskens <cfeskens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> System Administrator/Network Svcs. Consultant Willamette Integrated Technology Services Willamette University, Salem, OR --------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
