On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 08:54:30PM -0400, Michael J. McGillick wrote:
> Hi Everyone:
>
> I'm working on building updated ISOs for Red hat 7.1. I thought I had
> done everything correctly, but the install blew up in my face when
> anaconda didn't like something it saw. I've seen this before, and it is
> usually indicative of a bad build or burn. I wanted to review what I
> did, and see if someone could point out any glaring errors they might
> see.
Make sure nothing but rpms is in the RPMS directories,
each rpm passes with rpm -K --nopgp --nogpg.
>From the anaconda errors, you can often figure out what
was wrong. What did it say?
>
> - I started by downloading the first 2 CDs of the installation, and put
> each in its own folder.
> - I downloaded all of the patches and carefully replaced the existing
> packages, making sure I placed the appropriate ones in each folder and
> removed the old ones.
> - I made sure that the hidden files were in each directory specifying
> disc 1 and disc 2, and I then ran:
>
> /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist -withnumbers /home/temp/cd-1
> /home/temp/cd-2
Probably just an email typo, but you need 2 dashes in --withnumbers.
>
> - I looked, and saw that hdlist timestamp had been updated, indicating
> something happened.
> - I used mkisofs to create the images. I used the following commands
> for each from within the root directory of each CD staging area:
>
> CD 1: mkisofs -b images/boot.img -c boot.cat -d -J -L -N -o
> /home/image-1.iso -r -T -v ./
> CD 2: mkisofs -d -J -L -N -o /home/image-2.iso -r -T -v ./
The -T option helps only old DOS systems, so I leave it out to save
the space, and I remove the TRANS.TBL files to save space.
Instead of going into the directory and doing ./,
I use the full pathname of the directory.
>
> - The images were created, and then I used EZ CD Creator to burn out the
> images. I've not had a problem doing this before, so I believe the
> steps I've followed are accurate. It's been a while since I last did
> this, so I may have missed something.
>
> Questions:
>
> Someone on this list mentioned about downloading the latest images to
> address the SCSI adapters I use. I looked on both ftp.redhat.com and
> updates.redhat.com and could not find any new images other than the ones
> first released. Are these hidden somewhere, or is this the only image
> currently available?
Red Hat's policy seems to be to stick to the original iso,
and provide updated rpms separately, but not a new iso.
This makes support easier evidently.
The 7.0 respin is the only exception I know of.
>
> Red Hat released respin ISOs for Red Hat 7.0. Has Red hat done the same
> with 7.1 or are they planning on doing this? If released, where would I
> download these from please?
Red Hat provides updated rpms, but not updated isos.
--
Jan Carlson janc at kubwa dot com
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