Help with creating an updated distribution of FC3?

[Dave Alden]

Hi,
  Help.  I want to recreate my FC3 distribution "tree" -- basically I want
to create a "new" distribution that contains all of the updates.  I'm
pointing my FC3 installations at a local NFS repository.  If I copy the
DVD onto my NFS server, everything works fine (note that I'm running these
commands on a "virgin" FC3 box and the /home/fedora is NFS mounted off my
kickstart server):


# mkdir -p /home/fedora/modified
# export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda
# export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime
# export FCBASE=/home/fedora
# mount -o loop /home/fedora/iso/FC3-i386-DVD.iso /mnt
# cd /mnt && tar cf - . | (cd $FCBASE/modified)


Then I created a kickstart cd off the isolinux tree and everything works
just fine.  Great, now on to the next step -- I tried to regenerate the
FC3 tree using:


# cd $FCBASE/modified
# find . -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm -f {} \;
# pkgorder $FCBASE/modified i386 Fedora > $FCBASE/pkgfile
# genhdlist --fileorder $FCBASE/pkgfile --productpath Fedora $FCBASE/modified
# buildinstall --pkgorder $FCBASE/pkgfile --version 3 --prodpath Fedora
    --product 'Fedora Core' --release 'Fedora Core 3' $FCBASE/modified


I then recreate the isolinux boot cd from /home/fedora/modified/isolinux and
try to kickstart based on this tree.  Everything seems to proceed normally,
but part way through I get:

Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer - please wait...

at this point the graphics card initializes, but before the graphic installer
is displayed, I get:

install exited abnormally
sending termination signals...done
...etc...

I've checked the various virtual displays, and I don't see any (obvious)
errors.  Any ideas?

...thnx,
...dave alden