Create Custom Boot CD.

[Dan Trainor]

Avery Fay wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 11:02 -0700, Dan Trainor wrote:
> 
>>VC1 immediately drops to "install exited abnormally" after comps.rpm is
>>retrieved from the HTTP server.  VC3 is a little less than helpful by
>>saying "WARNING: not all packages in hdlist had order tag".  I'm not
>>quite sure what this means, however, I'm researching it.
> 
> 
> What version of RH are you basing your install off of? I never had to
> touch comps.rpm only comps.xml.
> 
> 
>>How am I supposed to rebuild comps.rpm?  I'm going to rip it apart and
>>take a look, but I'll also wait for your response in the meantime, if
>>you've got any ideas.
> 
> 
> After changes to comps.xml and deleting RPMS/adding RPMS, here's what I
> do:
> 
> /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist <path to cd hierarchy>
> /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder <path to cd hierarchy> i386 > \
> pkgorder.txt
> /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers \
> --fileorder=pkgorder.txt <path to cd hierarchy>
> 
> Yeah, you have to run genhdlist twice. No idea why, but it's required.
> Also, obviously <path to cd hierarchy> is just the path to the RH
> install hierarchy if you are doing a network install (this path is the
> one with the RedHat directory in it). 
> 

Thanks for the response, Avery -

I think the problem is, I'm actually editing comps.xml and adding my own
packages to @base.  I think this conflicts with comps.rpm, which does
not have my packages listed in it's own comps.xml.

However, since Anaconda is a bit less than friendly with it's debugging
information, I cannot verify this as a fact.

Thanks
-dant