Howto: rolling your own FC5 Kickstart installer DVD's?

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On 5/2/06, Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> Is there a good document on how to explode the FC5 DVD .iso file, add or
> subtract some files and RPM's, maybe add a ks.cfg file to it, and then
> put it all
> back together again?
>
> Seems that this would be a handy tool... I'd like to be able to do automated
> installs of FC5...

Not sure of any docs, but here's what I do to add a kickstart file to a DVD

ORIG=original-dvd.iso

mkdir -p orig.mnt
mount -o loop -t iso9660 $ORIG orig.mnt
rm -rf new
cp -va orig.mnt new

# Edit new/isolinux/isolinux.cfg
# add kickstart file to new

mkisofs -o my-new.iso \
       -b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
       -c isolinux/boot.cat \
       -no-emul-boot \
       -boot-load-size 4 \
       -boot-info-table \
       new

I then test out the DVD image with qemu (there are already far too
many coasters in this world) before burning it to DVD.

You may find http://www.users.on.net/~rgarth/weblog/fedora/patch_cd.autumn
useful for updating/adding rpms etc