Since I'm sure there's other people around with fun hardware that just won't work with the FC4 install kernel (Some of our IBM blades, Sun v40z), I'm sure people would appreciate a "I just want to get it running and not mess with rebuilding the entire damn distro with anaconda-runtime, which isn't that well documented anyway" HOWTO :-). Written from a PXE/kickstart point of view, if you want to do CD installs on affected boxes, doing the full anaconda-runtime mess is probably easier. I just wanted something with minimum possible changes to the install tree and have unaffected boxes use the vanilla install images. # Grab buildstamp from FC4 initrd cd /tmp mkdir initrd-fc4 cd initrd-fc4/ umask 022 zcat /tmp/fc4-initrd.img | cpio -i cd .. # Include it into rawhide initrd. Make initrd look for stage3.img instead so the original can be kept for unaffected boxes mkdir initrd-fc4-dev cd initrd-fc4-dev zcat /tmp/rawhide-initrd.img | cpio -i cp .buildstamp .buildstamp.orig cp ../initrd-fc4/.buildstamp . find . | cpio -c -o | sed 's/stage2.img/stage3.img/;s/hdstg2.img/hdstg3.img/;s/netstg2.img/netstg3.img/' | gzip -9 > fc4-rawhide-initrd cd .. # Add modules from rawhide kernel to stage2 mount -o loop stage2-fc4.img /mnt mount -o loop stage2-from-development.img /mnt2 mkdir /tmp/stage2 (cd /mnt; tar cvf - .) | (cd /tmp/stage2; tar xf -) cd /tmp/stage2/modules cp /mnt2/modules/* . cd /tmp mkcramfs stage2 stage3.img (repeat for hdstg2 and netstg2 if required and rinse) PXE boot rawhide kernel & modified initrd for affected boxes and Enjoy (tm) :-). Obviously you'll want an updated kernel getting installed in your kickstart, or the box might not boot afterwards. Would be nice if this was somewhat easier and/or someone actually made (semi-)official updated installer images available ;) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
