d'oh. thx for the heads up. On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 12:17 -0700, Mallasch, Paul wrote: > > Genhdlist will not work for FC5. > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaCustomization > > > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Pattullo > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:04 PM > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: re: FC5 package ordering > > On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 12:00 -0400, Ian Leonard <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > The main problem is that one of my rpms (that begins with an > > 'm') is on disk 2 but is required by the installer when disk 1 > > is in. > > Ian, > > Are you using 'splittree.py' & 'genhdlist' as part of your CD > build > process? As I understand it splittree is required in order to split the > pacakges into the necessary number of 'CDs', and genhdlist is needed to > be run after the split again in order to re-generate the list of > packages for each CD. Both scripts should have come with the > anaconda-runtime package. > > I use the following process to build my images. I'm making CD, > not DVD > images though, and much of what I do is dynamic so steps 6-12 are > probably what might help most: > > 1.) create the kickstart file > 2.) create the comps.xml file > 3.) create the .discinfo file > 4.) create the isolinux.cfg file > 5.) create the isolinux menu file > > 6.) generate the hdlists (genhdlist) > 7.) check dependencies (getfullcomps.py) > 8.) generate the package order file (pkgorder) > 9.) build the install tree (buildinstall) > 10.) split the install image (splittree.py) > 11.) regen the hdlists (genhdlist) > 12.) build the iso images (mkisofs) > > 13.) implant md5sums in the images (implantisomd5) > 14.) verify the md5sums (checkisomd5) > > > Hope the above helps. > > > Chris > > -- Chris Pattullo Developer, Software Engineering ParaSun Technologies Inc. <http://www.parasun.com> (Work) :: 604.357.0057 ext. 1510 (Alt) :: 888.207.0203 ext. 1510 (Cell) :: 604.351.2505 PGP public key @ <http://pgp.mit.edu> 0x95A4A710 ParaSun Root Cert @ <https://xchange.parasun.com/ca.crt>
