genhdlist problems under RHEL3
Ronald Reed
rreed at ops.sgp.arm.gov
Tue May 25 15:17:42 UTC 2004
Add me to the list of interested people. I would love to see that script
when you are done with it.
Ron Reed
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:02, Lynn, Michael (IDS DM&DS) wrote:
> Martin,
>
> Just registering my extreme interest in your script... thanks for the offer and associated effort.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Martin Robb
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 6:04 PM
> To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
> Subject: genhdlist problems under RHEL3
>
>
> I have a script which takes a ks.cfg file and a set of install CDs,
> reads the package and rpm list from the ks.cfg file, and extracts the
> infrastructure and the corresponding RPMs from the install CDs into an
> ISO file which can be used to roast an install CD. It all works very
> nicely under Fedora Core 2 using the FC2 install CDs.
>
> The same script can be used with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 install CDs
> to build an ISO file. The only tweaks were 1) replacing references to
> the Fedora subdirectory with the RedHat subdirectory, 2) omitting the
> --productpath argument to genhdlist since RHEL3 anaconda doesn't
> understand it.
>
> Although everything appears to work properly, during the install I get
> an error window:
> "Error: An error occurred unmounting the CD. Please make sure you're
> not accessing /mnt/source from the shell on tty2 and then click OK to
> retry."
> When I switch to tty2 I find that /mnt/source does not exist as a
> directory and nothing is mounted there. I can create the directory and
> mount /dev/hda as /mnt/source, but the install continues to give errors.
>
> The difficulty appears to be introduced by genhdlist. If I comment that
> out and leave the RHEL3 hdlist file, the resulting CD is useable as a
> first install CD, though the other RHEL disks are necessary since hdlist
> thinks some of the RPMs are on them. The genhdlist call isn't giving me
> any errors and the same logic is working under FC2.
>
> Any ideas what the problem may be?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin Robb
>
> PS: once I get it firing on all cylinders, I can post the script to the
> list if there is interest. It uses the comps.xml file to convert
> package names to a list of rpms (though not recursively), it understands
> the rather large set of rpms that seem to be "implied" under RHEL3 and
> FC2 without being explicitly listed in comps.xml, and it can handle
> local additions or overrides to the rpm list.
>
>
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