Making a Kick Start CD (Enterprise Linux ES 3)

[mbox mbarsalou]

Can I put in a "Me too!" for the script without getting in too much
trouble?  

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 13:07, James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov wrote:
> Hi.. The past couple of days I wrote a perl script that does all of
> this..  Basically you build a machine how you want -- with the right
> packages and what not..  Then from another host, you run my script--it
> then ssh's to your pre-built machine, gets the names of all the rpms
> installed on it, copies those rpms from a directory, copies some
> kickstart files, isolinux files, and RedHat/base directory, then run's
> mkisofs and gives you your cd image.
> 
> My mkisofs looks like this :
> 
> mkisofs  -r  -J  -T  -v  -V "RHEL/3 i386" -A "RHEL/3 i386" -c
> isolinux/boot.cat -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boot
> -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o isos/RHEL3AS-i386-disc1.iso
> temp_distro/
> 
> 
> 
> under temp_distro i have the following directories:
> 
> custom  isolinux  ksfiles  RedHat
> 
> 
> Custom is for specifialy files/packages/scripts/etc.  ksfiles are for
> kickstart files, isolinux is a modified copy of what is in isolinux on
> the RH iso, and RedHat contains base/ and RPMS/.
> 
> 
> James
> 
> 
> James S. Martin, RHCE
> Contractor
> Administrative Office of the United States Courts
> Washington, DC
> (202) 502-2394