[rhelv6-list] Tool to automate creation of install CDs.

[Paul Krizak]

The RHEL distro comes with a boot.iso that is a minimal environment that 
will get you into kickstart.  If this is insufficient you can unpack the 
ISO and put whatever you want into it, rebuild the ISO and there you go.

I'm assuming of course that the reason you want to do something like 
this is to include extra software so that during %pre install you can do 
things like partition your disks or query a DB or something?  Though 
when we need to do this, we simply put the tools we need on an NFS 
filesystem and mount it from %pre and fetch the tools from there.  That 
way there's no need to rebuild ISOs and stuff.

Remember that during %post install you've already got a fully installed 
system at /mnt/local, so just make sure whatever packages you need get 
installed during %packages phase.

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On 08/30/2011 04:33 PM, Citros Airv wrote:
> Yes, thanks. I'm planing to use a kickstart file but my question is
> prior to that. The goal is to minimize the boot cd so that is not larger
> than 700MB. So given a set of RPMs I want to create the boot disk itself
> based on that...After that I'll use kickstart to drive the installation
> as suggested.
>
> --Citros
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Marti, Robert <RJM002 at shsu.edu
> <mailto:RJM002 at shsu.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Look into kickstarts. That's exactly what they're for.
>
>     On Aug 30, 2011, at 18:07, "Citros Airv" <citros.airv at gmail.com
>     <mailto:citros.airv at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>      > Hi List,
>      >
>      > I'm trying to put together a process to automate the creation of
>     an installation CD for an appliance we manage. The goal is that
>     given a set of RPMs needed on the target appliance we put together a
>     custom CD containing only those RPMs. I was thinking of using the
>     livecd-tools package but the resulting CD can't be used to install
>     on a target system according to man page.
>      >
>      > Any pointers appreciated.
>      >
>      >
>      > --Citros
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