Re: simple buildinstall question

["Michael Barsalou" <barjunk attglobal net>]

Is using buildinstall appropriate if you are planning to change what 
modules are available at install time?  So if I had a generic NIC 
card that had a linux driver, but it wasn't part of the install set, I 
could change the install set to include it?

Mike

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Date sent:      	Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:20:23 -0500 (EST)

> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Matilainen Panu wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, ext rpjday wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > >   now that i'm going to figure out how buildinstall works, one
> > >   really
> > > trivial question -- what's it for?  i've already figured out what
> > > splitdistro is all about, but what's the purpose of buildinstall,
> > > in ten words or less?  thanks.  this is getting more complicated
> > > by the minute.
> > 
> > Buildinstall builds the installer :) You point it to the distro's
> > RPM directory and from the various packages in there (anaconda, X,
> > kernel-BOOT...) it creates all the disk and *std.img images the
> > installer uses.
> 
> i suspected as much, as i've been poking around in the code, amusing
> myself.  this leads to another question -- even if i change the set of
> RPMS under RedHat/RPMS, and come up with an updated comps file, and
> run "genhdlist" to rebuild the hdlist and hdlist2 files, is it
> necessary to run buildinstall to rebuild the .img files?
> 
> it would seem that the .img files under RedHat/base are built solely
> to support the install process.  as long as you're not changing
> anything related to the install itself, is there any reason not to
> stick with the original .img files that are already there?
> 
> rday
> 
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Michael Barsalou
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