Waller, Darrick J (US SSA) wrote:
Sorry, I am trying to get this working with RHEL3.
I will look into adding repositories to the kickstart file for RHEL5,
that sounds really handy.
FYI ... if you are using Cobbler for net installs, it can help set all
that up for you including the repo mirroring and so forth, and will keep
track of what repos are needed by what profiles.
cobbler import --name=rhel5 --mirror=/mnt/mymounteddvd
cobbler repo add --name=epel5-x86
--mirror=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/
cobbler repo add --name=mystuff --mirror=/path/to/my/extra/stuff
cobbler repo sync
cobbler profile edit --name=nameofprofile --repos="epel5-x86 mystuff"
However I believe on IRC you said you are doing media based stuff so
including the updates tricks really won't help you too much.
If you do have a network available at install time though, I'd recommend
using it, as the yum integration with kickstart (EL5 and later, Fedora 6
and later) is quite nice.
-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jesse Keating
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:56 PM
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Pre-patched kickstart tree
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:47:30 -0600
"Waller, Darrick J (US SSA)" <Darrick.Waller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As the subject states, I am trying to create an kickstart tree that
allows me to install a system with current packages, instead of older
packages from the downloaded ISO's that I have. I have novi installed,
and am able to merge the two RPMS directories that I have using hard
links, but when I try and kickstart a machine using this directory as
the install tree, I get the following error:
"That directory does not seem to contain a Red Hat Enterprise Linux
installation tree."
I've tried linking the 'RedHat/base' directory, thinking I needed the
stage2 stuff, but I still get the same error. Any advice on this, or
alternate methods of doing the same thing would be great.
If this is RHEL5, why not just add a repository in your ks file that
has all the updates in it? Far easier than trying to reconstruct the
install tree.
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