genhdlist problems under RHEL3

[James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov]

Sometimes it helps to read the archives :).  Check out the thread starting 
5/13/2004 titled "An error occurred unmounting the CD..."  Basically it 
comes down doing a "genhdlist --withnumbers". 

I spent a couple days with this.. Red Hat changes things significantly in 
RHEL3U2..  Here's basically the steps I had to use.

 genhdlist --withnumbers --hdlist base/hdlist temp_distro/    #i generate 
my hdlist in a working directory and then later copy it over to the 
directory i turn into an ISO.
export PYTHONDIR=/usr/lib/anaconda
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder temp_distro/ "" rhe3qu2 > pkgorder.txt
genhdlist  --withnumbers --fileorder pkgorder.txt --hdlist base/hdlist 
temp_distro/

After this I copy over the hdlist into the temp_distro/ dir.  I could not 
get around doing it twice because of the way my directory structure is set 
up, but it only takes a second and works fine.  If you don't do the 
pkgorder, anaconda will not pay any attention to depedencies and install 
everything in alphabetical order (it really screws things up).

Good luck.



James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394

kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 05/24/2004 06:04:21 PM:

> I have a script which takes a ks.cfg file and a set of install CDs, 
> reads the package and rpm list from the ks.cfg file, and extracts the 
> infrastructure and the corresponding RPMs from the install CDs into an 
> ISO file which can be used to roast an install CD.  It all works very 
> nicely under Fedora Core 2 using the FC2 install CDs.
> 
> The same script can be used with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 install CDs 
> to build an ISO file.  The only tweaks were 1) replacing references to 
> the Fedora subdirectory with the RedHat subdirectory, 2)  omitting the 
> --productpath argument to genhdlist since RHEL3 anaconda doesn't 
> understand it. 
> 
> Although everything appears to work properly, during the install I get 
> an error window:
> "Error: An error occurred unmounting the CD.  Please make sure you're 
> not accessing /mnt/source from the shell on tty2 and then click OK to 
> retry."
> When I switch to tty2 I find that /mnt/source does not exist as a 
> directory and nothing is mounted there.  I can create the directory and 
> mount /dev/hda as /mnt/source, but the install continues to give errors.
> 
> The difficulty appears to be introduced by genhdlist.  If I comment that 

> out and leave the RHEL3 hdlist file, the resulting CD is useable as a 
> first install CD, though the other RHEL disks are necessary since hdlist 

> thinks some of the RPMs are on them.  The genhdlist call isn't giving me 

> any errors and the same logic is working under FC2.
> 
> Any ideas what the problem may be?
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin Robb
> 
> PS: once I get it firing on all cylinders, I can post the script to the 
> list if there is interest.  It uses the comps.xml file to convert 
> package names to a list of rpms (though not recursively), it understands 

> the rather large set of rpms that seem to be "implied" under RHEL3 and 
> FC2 without being explicitly listed in comps.xml, and it can handle 
> local additions or overrides to the rpm list.
> 
> 
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