Neccessary metadata for NFS kickstart of base+updates(+extras)?

[Phil Oester]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 05:51:26PM -0700, Joe Christy wrote:
> While I've found various (dated) descriptions of how to build iso's for
> FC4 w/ updates replacing their respective originals, I haven't found
> corresponding documentation for an NFS based kickstart.
> 
> If I'm _not_ using iso's, just a Fedora/{base,RPMS} tree with latest
> update rpms, what meta-data  do I need to generate so that I can do a
> kickstart install? Is hdlist still necessary, since there are, strictly
> speaking no install discs?

A simple genhdlist:

/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --productpath Fedora /foo/kickstart

will regenerate hdlist (yes, it is needed).

> ... and what If I want to supplement my install with some rpms from
> Extras? Do I need only add the packages into comps.xml and proceed as
> before?

Not familiar with this one

Phil