Thanks Sebastien. This looks like fixed the problem... whatever it was. So in RHEL 4.2 x86_64 you must run pkgorder followed by genhdlist. In RHEL 2.1 you didn't have to run pkgorder to add packages. Chris -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:54 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: RHEL 4.2 Anaconda problems Philip Rowlands <phr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think perhaps the genhdlist is not working well or there is > > something else I have to do. Any help greatly appreciated. > > There is a bug (feature?) in recent anacondas, still present it seems, > where the package order is not taken into account, and must therefore be > generated correctly (with pkgorder). The wiki page which Klaus mentioned > has the details of which commands to run. >From what I've learned, there are two tricks. The first one is that you must run genhdlist, then pkgorder, then again genhdlist: $ genhdlist $RHDIST $ pkgorder $RHDIST i386 [list of groups to prioritize] >pkgorder.txt $ genhdlist --fileorder pkgorder.txt $RHDIST The second trick is that if you use buildinstall to regenerate the installation disk images, it itself re-runs pkgorder, hence ignoring the groups you wanted to prioritize. What I do is save a copy of the pkgorder.txt file before running buildinstall, then copy it back. -- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO. _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
