Anyone Built a LIVECD + Kickstart

[Shabazian, Chip]

I've used the instructions found here to add binaries to my netstg2.img.
You should be able to modify it to your liking:

http://linuxgazette.net/105/nielsen.html#install

Not a "live cd" exactly, but it should give you what you are looking
for.

Chip

 

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dag Wieers
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 9:44 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: Anyone Built a LIVECD + Kickstart

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Don Hoover wrote:

> We have kickstart CD's we use that allow us to boot and install 
> several versions of RHEL from the one CD
> using CGI's etc.   Bascially the idea is to have a
> single CD the admins can carry with them, boot off of to install any 
> system using any of our currently supported versions of RHEL.
> 
> I was thinking it would be cool to add something like DamnSmall etc 
> that they could use as a rescue toolkit to have handy too on that CD.
> 
> After all I am using like 40MB right now just to basically have a 
> isolinux directory.
> 
> 
> Just curious if anyone has done that yet.

We have a customized boot.iso with our own splash screen (text-only),
be-latin1 keyboard mappings, serial console and with many isolinux
labels (rescue images and kickstart commandline parameters for every
system we have). Since we're not allowed to do DHCP/PXE installations,
such an ISO allows us to have a single image that we can boot from as a
"virtual" 
cdrom and either test the network/hardware or do the installation.

Unfortunately I haven't find a small rescue image that includes a recent
2.6 kernel and wide network support. RIP with network is already 30MB
(takes a long time to load over the network) and none of them have
tcptraceroute functionality (which is important to be able to test and
pinpoint firewall configuration problems).

tcptraceroute in busybox is an essential feature for us, I'd donate
money to have someone write it.

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

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