please help, CentOS 5.1 kickstart installation looking for stuff from CD2??? [SOLVED]

[Rudi Ahlers]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> Pablo Iranzo G�mez wrote:
>>>     Rudi,
>>>
>>> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Yes, I just copied cd.iso to a folder and removed a few things I 
>>>> didn't
>>>> want. Later on I'm going to add a few rpm's which I want to the
>>>> kickstart to copy to the installed system.
>>>> I currently have all the files on a SME 7.3 server (which runs on a
>>>> very  modified version of CentOS 4.6) so I don't know if the 
>>>> createrepo
>>>> command will work, or actually do what it's supposed todo.
>>>>     
>>>
>>>     You'll need :) createrepo updates files in repodata/ that are used
>>> during installation.
>>>   
>> Would this still work if the only other machine I have to my disposal 
>> to setup the ISO (where I'm currently creating the kickstart file & 
>> ISO file) is on a different OS & architecture?
>
> Er. Windows?
Ok, ok. Not windows, I meant different Linux flavours, say like Debian / 
Slackware / etc?
>
>> For example, I'm writing & testing a kickstart for CentOS 5.1 x64, 
>> and I only have 1 64bit PC at this stage. But our LAN server, as I 
>> said, runs on SME 7.3, which is CentOS 4.6 i386 - will this make any 
>> difference?
>
> Probably:-) AFAIk C4 repos work with C5.
>
> I don't believe the architecture is important, but the version of 
> createrepo probably is. createrepo is noarch, so it can be installed 
> anywhere you like, assuming you have the tools (and on SME I expect 
> you have)
> rpm2cpio <createrepo....rpm | cpip --extract -d
>
> You could use that technique to put createrepo into an area within 
> your local mirror and so, if needs be, have several different versions 
> for several different repos.
thanx, this has worked well.

createrepo -g repodata/comps.xml . is that command I used and it works 
quite well. Thank you very much :)

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