Pre-patched kickstart tree

[Waller, Darrick J (US SSA)]

Sorry, I am trying to get this working with RHEL3.

I will look into adding repositories to the kickstart file for RHEL5,
that sounds really handy.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jesse Keating
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:56 PM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Pre-patched kickstart tree

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:47:30 -0600
"Waller, Darrick J (US SSA)" <Darrick.Waller at baesystems.com> wrote:

> As the subject states, I am trying to create an kickstart tree that
> allows me to install a system with current packages, instead of older
> packages from the downloaded ISO's that I have. I have novi installed,
> and am able to merge the two RPMS directories that I have using hard
> links, but when I try and kickstart a machine using this directory as
> the install tree, I get the following error:
> 
>  
> 
> "That directory does not seem to contain a Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> installation tree."
> 
>  
> 
> I've tried linking the 'RedHat/base' directory, thinking I needed the
> stage2 stuff, but I still get the same error. Any advice on this, or
> alternate methods of doing the same thing would be great.


If this is RHEL5, why not just add a repository in your ks file that
has all the updates in it?  Far easier than trying to reconstruct the
install tree.

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