Create Custom Boot CD.

Avery Fay avery at port25.com
Mon Jul 11 18:12:23 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 11:02 -0700, Dan Trainor wrote:
> VC1 immediately drops to "install exited abnormally" after comps.rpm is
> retrieved from the HTTP server.  VC3 is a little less than helpful by
> saying "WARNING: not all packages in hdlist had order tag".  I'm not
> quite sure what this means, however, I'm researching it.

What version of RH are you basing your install off of? I never had to
touch comps.rpm only comps.xml.

> How am I supposed to rebuild comps.rpm?  I'm going to rip it apart and
> take a look, but I'll also wait for your response in the meantime, if
> you've got any ideas.

After changes to comps.xml and deleting RPMS/adding RPMS, here's what I
do:

/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist <path to cd hierarchy>
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder <path to cd hierarchy> i386 > \
pkgorder.txt
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers \
--fileorder=pkgorder.txt <path to cd hierarchy>

Yeah, you have to run genhdlist twice. No idea why, but it's required.
Also, obviously <path to cd hierarchy> is just the path to the RH
install hierarchy if you are doing a network install (this path is the
one with the RedHat directory in it). 

-- 
Avery Fay <avery at port25.com>




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