Here is everything I have in my notes from last time I did this. I don't remember why I used tar to copy the contents of the stage2.img, but probably because it preserved something that 'cp' didn't.
# Do the following to disable the CDROM eject using kickstart:
* to make changes to files on the ram filesystem:
mkdir /mnt/image
mount -o loop /mnt/cdrom/images/stage2.img /mnt/image/
cd /mnt/image
tar -cvf ~/stage2.tar .
mkdir ~/stage2
cd ~/stage2
tar -xvf ~/stage2.tar
vim usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py
* add this line into the setSteps function
dispatch.skipStep("methodcomplete")
* to recreate the ram file system:
cd ~
mksquashfs stage2/ stage2.img.new
cp stage2.img.new ~/dvd/images/stage2.img
# Create the custom iso with mkisofs
mkisofs -o custom.iso -V "Customized" -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J -v -T /tmp/cdrom
I added the line to kickstart.py on line 880. Here's the surrounding lines for context:
...
dispatch.skipStep("bootdisk")
dispatch.skipStep("betanag")
dispatch.skipStep("installtype")
dispatch.skipStep("tasksel")
dispatch.skipStep("network")
dispatch.skipStep("methodcomplete")
# Don't show confirmation screens on non-interactive installs.
if not self.ksdata.interactive:
dispatch.skipStep("confirminstall")
dispatch.skipStep("confirmupgrade")
dispatch.skipStep("welcome")
...
Also make sure your new CD or DVD includes the .discinfo and .treeinfo files from the root of the original DVD.
Bryan Schneiders
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John Oliver wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:49:13PM -0500, Bryan Schneiders wrote:
I worked around this in the past by modifying usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py
in the stage2.img and adding dispatch.skipStep("methodcomplete") to the
list in the setSteps function.
Where, exactly, would that line go?
Every suggestion I've had for this problem results in a stage2.img that
does not work.
I can go through the motions of creating a new stage2.img, and so long
as I do not change anything, it will work, so I know I'm not screwing
that up. But if I change any files, I get stuck with the message:
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server CD was not found in any of your
CDROM drives. Please insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server CD and
press OK to retry.
That tells me that either there's some very particular way in which the
contents of the img need to be modified, or that every suggestion I've
found so far has been a guess as to "what might work". So, a very
precise description of what *does* work would be greatly appreciated.
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