Has anyone gotten buildinstall to work as documented on the RedHat-CD Howto? I can't seem to put anything with a space. I had issues getting it to do anything with quotes.
Erik On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 01:08, Sam J. Engström wrote: > Joe Stevens wrote: > > ... > > I would like to make install CDs, but > > the 'splitdistro' command seems to have been replaced by > > 'splittree.py'. > > I couldn't find any documentation on this (it has help, but I > > couldn't get it to work, it pops a fatal error about .discinfo). > > ... > > I am probably just missing some step, so if someone > > could either explain how to us it, or point me to some > > docs I would be grateful. > > Here's how I've done it. > > The SRPMS dir must exist, even if empty. > # mkdir /buildroot/SRPMS > > You need buildinstall's pkgorder.txt in /buildroot for this to work and > release-string probably needs to be the same as with buildinstall. > # splittree.py --arch=i386 --total-discs=3 --bin-discs=3 --release-string="Red > Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Advanced Server" --pkgorderfile=/buildroot/pkgorder.txt > --distdir=/buildroot/i386 --src-discs=1 --srcdir=/buildroot/SRPMS > > New hdlists should be made. > # rm /buildroot/i386-disc1/RedHat/base/hdlist* > # genhdlist --withnumbers --fileorder /buildroot/pkgorder.txt > /buildroot/i386-disc[123] > > Then you can make the isos (working dir is /buildroot) > # mkisofs -r -N -L -d -D -J -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat > -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o as3-1.iso i386-disc1 > # mkisofs -r -N -L -d -D -J -o as3-2.iso i386-disc2 > # mkisofs -r -N -L -d -D -J -o as3-3.iso i386-disc3 > > You can probably do most of these without being root. > > Regards, > Sam > > -- > Sam J. Engstrom Tel. +358 400 462442 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Managing Director Nemesol http://nemesol.fi > rhel-rebuild mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria rhel-rebuild mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
