Manual tweaks to the FC9 install CD

[Cary Maister]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 09:39 -0400, Cary Maister wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've currently got a Bugzilla bug (#442457) open for an issue that 
>> prevents me FC9 installation from even getting started - when detecting 
>> my system hardware, hal chokes on a slash in my hard disk's indentifier.
>>
>> In any case, since the bug hasn't been fixed yet (I'm sure there are 
>> bigger fish to fry right now) I thought I'd take a shot at fixing it 
>> myself so I can kick of my installation. The bug is located in the hal 
>> Python scripts that are included in the stage2 squashfs image, which is 
>> mounted read-only when I boot up with the CD. I've search done a ton of 
>> searching but haven't found details on how I can modify those files and 
>> create a new install CD including the modifications.
>>
>> Anyone have any experience with something similar?
>>     
>
> I couldn't install F9 Beta either, because of an Anaconda bug
> apparently. Try the Preview version which came out a couple of days ago.
> It has different bugs :-)
>
> poc
>
>   
Thanks Patrick, but I've actually already tried the Preview version and 
it hits the same error.

Cary