Hi,
For the OLPC school server ("XS") we are planning to move from our
dated F9 setup to CentOS 6.2. Thanks for all the effort involved in
producing this distro.
One important part of this project is a 'respin' of the install media
- we need to add a handful of packages from external repositories, and
maybe run a command late in the install.
Are the scripts/configurations used to produce the CentOS official
CD/DVDs available? I guess this would be our most reliable/sensible
starting point.
I am familiar with pungi, kickstart, anaconda, etc, so just a simple
git link would be enough to get me started.
Thanks,
Daniel
From: Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>> One important part of this project is a 'respin' of the install media > - we need to add a handful of packages from external repositories, and > maybe run a command late in the install. > Are the scripts/configurations used to produce the CentOS official > CD/DVDs available? I guess this would be our most reliable/sensible > starting point. > I am familiar with pungi, kickstart, anaconda, etc, so just a simple > git link would be enough to get me started.If you are familiar with kickstarts, you do not need anything else... Just write your kickstart and add it to either a DVD or a USB key or ... For the DVD, something like this used to work in the past: mount CentOS-*-bin-DVD.iso /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 -o loop cp -a /mnt/cdrom /tmp/cdrom cd /tmp/cdrom cp ks.cfg . edit isolinux/isolinux.cfg: ? default linux ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg chmod u+w isolinux/* cd /tmp mkisofs -o dvd.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J -v -T cdrom JD
Hi Daniel, On 02/03/2012 04:30 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:> For the OLPC school server ("XS") we are planning to move from our > dated F9 setup to CentOS 6.2. Thanks for all the effort involved in > producing this distro.Excellent news!> One important part of this project is a 'respin' of the install media > - we need to add a handful of packages from external repositories, and > maybe run a command late in the install. > > Are the scripts/configurations used to produce the CentOS official > CD/DVDs available? I guess this would be our most reliable/sensible > starting point. > > I am familiar with pungi, kickstart, anaconda, etc, so just a simple > git link would be enough to get me started.We only use that scripts included in the anaconda-runtime stack - I'm away to Fosdem this weekend ( are you guys around ? ) back in town on Monday, would love to help you guys make this transition. Essentially, the repo included on disk/in-media/in-mirror is a snapshot in time from the buildsys, with a bunch of tests run against it and an install image built around it. Depending on what you are trying to do and what the most desirable goal might be, I'll be happy to help build a process for that. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc