change newt text on installer

Nick Byrne nicholas.byrne at quadriga.com
Fri Aug 22 13:14:57 UTC 2008


Change the first word on 2nd line of initrd.img's ".buildstamp" file. 
Check /usr/lib/anaconda/product.py on an installed system for more 
details on where it is derived from.

Regards
Nick

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Moray Henderson (ICT) wrote:
>>> From: Ady Wicaksono [mailto:ady.wicaksono at gmail.com]
>>>
>>> If we use text installer for installing RHEL or CENTOS, we can see in
>>> the top left window text "Welcome to CentOS ... blablabla"
>>>
>>> How can we change this text?
>>
>> Yes, this is Anaconda.  I tried to get pungi to build CentOS 5.2, but 
>> it required versions of other packages that only appear in the later 
>> Fedoras, so I went back to the old-fashioned way of doing it.
>>
>
> May I recommend you try Revisor?
>
>> The command you need is buildinstall, from the anaconda-runtime 
>> package, which rebuilds the boot images for the CD.  It's... not well 
>> documented.  Note that it overwrites some of the files in the 
>> isolinux directory, so if you have customised those make sure you 
>> have backups.  Come to think of it, make sure you have backups of 
>> your build root anyway.  The commands you need will be something like
>>
>> PATH=/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime:$PATH
>> buildinstall --comps <path to comps.xml> \
>>     --version <version> \
>>     --product <product name> \
>>     --release <release name> \
>>     --prodpath <product dir under buildroot e.g. CentOS> \
>>     </full/path/to/build/root>
>>
>> It's either the product or release name that gets displayed by the 
>> text mode installs.
>>
>
> IIRC, it's the Product name that is used for the text displayed 
> described in this thread.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jeroen van Meeuwen
> -kanarip
>
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