On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 16:39, bascule wrote: > hey tom, > greg is referring to the practice of taking an install disk for an os or prog > and also the subsequent updates for said os/prog and combining them so that > one creates an install disk that installs the os/prog with the updates > already applied, when service pack 1 for winxp came out there was a quite a > bit of discussion (elsewhere of course!) on how to create a cd that would > install winxp with the service pack already applied. greg is looking to do > the same thing with lm, imho it would make a great mini-howto as with a few > cd-rws one could always have an uptodate version of lm to install on a > machine that might not have a broadband connection, of course it's not that > hard to keep a cd of all the updates that one downloads and install and then > update from that but i like the elegance of a slipstreamed install :) > > bascule
I haven't played with the MDK installer only Anaconda by RH .... but it provides a means where you need to mod only 1 file run genhdlist and poof new CD... the problem so to speak comes in spanning multiple CD's. Now the question as I see it is.. would a modified version of the technique used to create Cooker CD's be the right way to go? In the past I had just burned off all of the rpms in update to CD then added it to my media list for urpmi then did urpmi -media-name -auto --auto-select and let it run. Prior to urpmi I'd do rpm -Fvh *.rpm while in the directory on the disk. The F of course only acts if the rpm exists in its older form already installed. James
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