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

Tim mlist at lubrical.net
Wed Aug 31 06:37:48 UTC 2011


> 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.

You can efficiently kickstart from the CD/DVD you boot from. Build an iso
that has a ks.cfg on it and set up grub to pass it automatically, like
"ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg".

This will make a self contained CD that will kickstart from itself when
booted.

-- 
Tim





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