The RHEL distro comes with a boot.iso that is a minimal environment that
will get you into kickstart. If this is insufficient you can unpack the
ISO and put whatever you want into it, rebuild the ISO and there you go.
I'm assuming of course that the reason you want to do something like
this is to include extra software so that during %pre install you can do
things like partition your disks or query a DB or something? Though
when we need to do this, we simply put the tools we need on an NFS
filesystem and mount it from %pre and fetch the tools from there. That
way there's no need to rebuild ISOs and stuff.
Remember that during %post install you've already got a fully installed
system at /mnt/local, so just make sure whatever packages you need get
installed during %packages phase.
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On 08/30/2011 04:33 PM, Citros Airv wrote:
Yes, thanks. I'm planing to use a kickstart file but my question is
prior to that. The goal is to minimize the boot cd so that is not larger
than 700MB. So given a set of RPMs I want to create the boot disk itself
based on that...After that I'll use kickstart to drive the installation
as suggested.
--Citros
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Marti, Robert <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Look into kickstarts. That's exactly what they're for.
On Aug 30, 2011, at 18:07, "Citros Airv" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I'm trying to put together a process to automate the creation of
an installation CD for an appliance we manage. The goal is that
given a set of RPMs needed on the target appliance we put together a
custom CD containing only those RPMs. I was thinking of using the
livecd-tools package but the resulting CD can't be used to install
on a target system according to man page.
>
> Any pointers appreciated.
>
>
> --Citros
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