Hi all, I am trying at my wits end on this forum after lot of googling on the issue on how I can make custom RHEL 5.5 CD. I need some packages to be removed from my custom RHEL and some other RPMs to be added being used by my application (like unixODBC etc) installation. I am new to custom RHEL CD making, so giving the steps here in case if I missd any. Here is what I did - 1. Copied all RPMs from RHEL CD to all-rpms directory 2. Copied all RPMs specific to my application to all-rpms directory 3. Copied only those RPMs needed by my application from all-rpms to app-rpms (I have list of RPMs needed for application). 4. Edited comps-rhel5-server-core.xml and in alphabetic order kept all my packages in between <packagelist> </packagelist> as all packages as "mandatory" ex - <packagereq type=mandatory>yum</packagereq> 5. Created app-rhel and app-rhel/Server directory 6. Copied all RPMs from app-rpms to app-rhel/Server directory 7. Copied comps-rhel5-server-core.xml to app-rhel/Server directory 8. Copied isolinux, images, README*, EULA/eula* and .discinfo, .treeinfo to app-rhel 9. After this run createrepo as createrepo -u "media://$discinfo" -g comps-rhel5-server-core.xml app-rhel where discinfo is head -1 .discinfo 10. Ran mkisofs as mkisofs -r -R -J -T -v -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -V "My Custom RHEL" -p "Customized" -A "My Custom RHEL" -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -x "lost+found" -o app-iso/custom-rhel5.5.iso app-rhel All went fine and could also build RHEL ISO. It has around 394 packages, I could install it also on VirtualBox but when I boot it, it only has 99 packages. Last Package it installed was kernel-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64. There is also no "rpm" package there, (rpm command not found), I saw this in /root/install.log. Any guidance as to how to debug/troubleshoot would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Parvez -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
