How to build a custom ISO?
Hello! Is there any recommended way to create a custom ISO installer? I have no X on my SL just pure console. I've read that revisor is old and not supported but pungi is great. I've tried pungi under Fedora 17 for "cross build" without success (packages were downloaded but some problems with anaconda at building boot image stage). CentOS 6.3 does not have pungi. I think SL does not have pungi as well. So revisor is the only tool for building such images here in SL land? Bye, a
Re: How to build a custom ISO?
On 08/16/2012 08:38 AM, Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! Is there any recommended way to create a custom ISO installer? I have no X on my SL just pure console. I've read that revisor is old and not supported but pungi is great. I've tried pungi under Fedora 17 for "cross build" without success (packages were downloaded but some problems with anaconda at building boot image stage). CentOS 6.3 does not have pungi. I think SL does not have pungi as well. So revisor is the only tool for building such images here in SL land? Bye, a Revisor is the recommended tool for SL6. You always have the option of rolling by hand. I use a set of modified scripts to roll custom SL5 images based on the documentation on the SL's website and from searching the web. If you simply want to customize the packages, you can make the necessary changes, rebuild the repo data, update the comps files, and build the image. Remember, SL and TUV are _not_ bleeding edge like Fedora. Just because the bleeding edge calls something "old" doesn't mean it is garbage and useless. It just means someone has come up with a new/different way of accomplishing the same task. -Mark -- Mr. Mark V. Stodola Senior Control Systems Engineer National Electrostatics Corp. P.O. Box 620310 Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA Phone: (608) 831-7600 Fax: (608) 831-9591
Re: How to build a custom ISO?
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! Is there any recommended way to create a custom ISO installer? I have no X on my SL just pure console. I've read that revisor is old and not supported but pungi is great. I've tried pungi under Fedora 17 for "cross build" without success (packages were downloaded but some problems with anaconda at building boot image stage). CentOS 6.3 does not have pungi. I think SL does not have pungi as well. So revisor is the only tool for building such images here in SL land? It is what we use to build SL 6 . Revisor is include in the release along with the config files used to build the release. -Connie Sieh Bye, a
Re: How to build a custom ISO?
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: > On 08/16/2012 08:38 AM, Artifex Maximus wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >> Is there any recommended way to create a custom ISO installer? I have >> no X on my SL just pure console. I've read that revisor is old and not >> supported but pungi is great. I've tried pungi under Fedora 17 for >> "cross build" without success (packages were downloaded but some >> problems with anaconda at building boot image stage). CentOS 6.3 does >> not have pungi. I think SL does not have pungi as well. So revisor is >> the only tool for building such images here in SL land? >> >> Bye, >> a > > Revisor is the recommended tool for SL6. You always have the option of > rolling by hand. I use a set of modified scripts to roll custom SL5 images > based on the documentation on the SL's website and from searching the web. > If you simply want to customize the packages, you can make the necessary > changes, rebuild the repo data, update the comps files, and build the image. Thank you. > Remember, SL and TUV are _not_ bleeding edge like Fedora. Just because the > bleeding edge calls something "old" doesn't mean it is garbage and useless. > It just means someone has come up with a new/different way of accomplishing > the same task. That is clear for me and I do not think that old means useless. As I would like to keep myself in picture I am using several Linux distribution and one of them is Fedora 17. As Fedora is similar to TUV (and SL and CentOS) and uses RPM I think that "cross building" is possible. But that is not the case. Bye, a
Re: How to build a custom ISO?
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Connie Sieh wrote: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> Is there any recommended way to create a custom ISO installer? I have >> no X on my SL just pure console. I've read that revisor is old and not >> supported but pungi is great. I've tried pungi under Fedora 17 for >> "cross build" without success (packages were downloaded but some >> problems with anaconda at building boot image stage). CentOS 6.3 does >> not have pungi. I think SL does not have pungi as well. So revisor is >> the only tool for building such images here in SL land? > > It is what we use to build SL 6 . Revisor is include in the release along > with the config files used to build the release. Thank you. Bye, a
Re: How to build a custom ISO?
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Connie Sieh wrote: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> Is there any recommended way to create a custom ISO installer? I have >> no X on my SL just pure console. I've read that revisor is old and not >> supported but pungi is great. I've tried pungi under Fedora 17 for >> "cross build" without success (packages were downloaded but some >> problems with anaconda at building boot image stage). CentOS 6.3 does >> not have pungi. I think SL does not have pungi as well. So revisor is >> the only tool for building such images here in SL land? > > > It is what we use to build SL 6 . Revisor is include in the release along > with the config files used to build the release. Thanks again. Much better now. I would like to ask some questions. How to remove the SELinux warning at boot on the generated ISO file? Why packages folder includes packages for i386 architecture? For example I have wireshark for x86_64 and i386. Why? Is it possible to create ISO for SL 5.x on SL 6.x? Is it possible to create ISO for i386 on x86_64 machine? Is it possible to clean up revisor yum cache folder of older packages and leave only the latest one? Bye, a
