genhdlist problems under RHEL3

[Sarika Inamdar]

I'm interested in the script too !!!

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> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of mbox mbarsalou
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:44 AM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: genhdlist problems under RHEL3
> 
> 
> I'm Interested.
> 
> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 14:04, Martin Robb wrote:
> > 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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