customized nfs install

[GABRIEL KAPITANY]

I'm booting from floppy and do nfs install...
linux dd ks=nfs:192.168.1.1:/img/IMG/ks.cfg
ksdevice=eth0

The iso is the one from de distribution, mounted
through loopback and having one rpm replaced and
hdlist regenerated. Then I create the iso...

What I'm interested in, is how can I replace an
existing   package with a newer one right at the
install without having later to run an up2date.

Thx,
Gabriel

--- Klaus Steden <klaus.steden at thomson.net> wrote:

> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I don't know if this is the proper place to ask
> ...
> > 
> > I want to customize the rpms in A RedHat AS3
> > distribution for nfs install.
> > 
> > I've modified disc 1:
> >  - replaceing openldap-server rpm with a newer
> version
> > from Redhat/RPMS.
> >  - removed Redhat/base/hdlist*
> >  - run genhdlist --withnumbers /path/disc1
> >  - checked and hdlist files were re-created
> >  - created iso image:  mkisofs  -J -R -o
> > rhel-3-u5-i386-as-disc1.iso /path/disc1/
> >   - booted and stared nfs install and I got the
> > following error:
> > 
> > File "usr/lib/anaconda.image.py", line 968 in ?
> >    methodobj = =NfsIsoInstallMethod(mathod[8:],
> > intf.messageWindow, rootPath)
> > File "usr/lib/anaconda.image.py", line 484 in
> __init__
> >    self.mountImage(1)
> > File "usr/lib/anaconda.image.py", line 456 in
> > mountImage
> >    isoimage = self.isoPath + '/' +
> > self.diskImages[cdNum]
> > KeyError: 1
> > install exited abnormally
> > 
> I'm strictly speculating, but from the Anaconda
> output, it looks like your ISO
> is no good.
> 
> Check its usability first by putting it into another
> system and checking that
> it's mountable, etc. 
> 
> ... but more to the point, if you're doing an NFS
> install, you don't need to
> use the metadata on the CD, you can simply boot
> kickstart and tell it to use
> what it finds online.
> 
> I'm using it to do HTTP installs, and my boot media
> is strictly bare-bones,
> and I have no hdlist files, RPMs, or comps.xml files
> anywhere on it - that
> stuff is all provided over HTTP during installation.
> 
> Klaus
> 
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