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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Fellow systems builders,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have been happily PXE booting Linux boxes with custom package
lists via kickstart and a little cfengine.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I was doing what I thought was a typical cycle:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Added a few custom groups to ks.cfg, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>create rpm’s <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>copy rpm’s to my netboot RPMS
directory <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>edit comps.xml - add rpms to my custom
groups<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>run genhdlist ( /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist
--withnumbers --hdlist /i386/linux4.4/RedHat/base/hdlist /i386/linux4.4)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have been doing this awhile without incident (and enjoying
the benefits ;-) until my build system suddenly broke while parsing comps.xml
(although there doesn’t appear to be anything wrong with my comps.xml).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>From anacdump.txt…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Traceback (most recent call last):<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'> File "/usr/bin/anaconda",
line 1181, in ?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'> intf.run(id, dispatch,
configFileData)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'>…snip…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'> File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1175, in
parseMemory<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'> if ret is None:raise
parserError('xmlParseMemory() failed')<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'>parserError: xmlParseMemory() failed<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’m seeing that folks are saying the “genhdlist”
is outdated. Maybe I should be generating hdlist in another way?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>What is the best way to generate hdlist*? How can I tell if
my comps.xml is not matching up with my RPM repo?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>--Dan Cutler<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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