Xen users - Jul 2012 - centos.org 5 Installation_Guide-en-US/ch02s04.html#s2-steps-make-cd

There seems to be several problems in this kickstart cd document.  I
guess this was copied from RedHat''s documentation.  Can someone please
direct me or my comments to the right person?


http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/ch02s04.html#s2-steps-make-cd

this command (in the documentation) needs a space in it:
cp -r <path-to-cd>/isolinux/<path-to-workspace>


The chmod command is skipping the isolinux directory and all
subdirectories and files.  Also, I did need the read permission too.
So, this command in the directions is incorrect: 
chmod u+w isolinux/*

The mkisofs command in the browser is only one line.  So the \ is
confusing in the line and it is not clear to some people that this is
the line continuation character.  This command should appear as 2 lines
or that continuation char and explanation should be removed.

The boot seems to expect to find vmlinuz in a sub-folder called
isolinux.  This is the error I see:

7/18/2012 11:42:31 AM Error: Starting VM ''CentOS 6.0 (64-bit)
(kickstart)'' - INVALID_SOURCE - Unable to access a required file in the
specified repository: file:///tmp/cdrom-repo-6ZKdE0/isolinux/vmlinuz.

Like the chmod mistake above, the file.iso produced by your mkisofs
command did not include the  isolinux folder (just the files in the
folder).  So, I changed the mkisofs command to collect files in "."
and
to store the file.iso one level up "../file.iso" ...  isolinux.bin and
boot.cat paths needed adjusting too.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:44 PM, James Calfee <jcalfee@accessrxs.com>
wrote:
>
> There seems to be several problems in this kickstart cd document.  I
> guess this was copied from RedHat''s documentation.  Can someone
please
> direct me or my comments to the right person?
Thank you for looking into this -- have you tried looking at the
centos.org website to find out whom to contact about documentation
changes?  Perhaps they have a "documentation" section of their
bugtracker?

I don''t think any of us are directly active with that project.  Let me
know if you don''t get anywhere, and I can try to follow my network of
contacts to get it to the right person.  But I suspect it will be
faster for you to contact someone at centos yourself.

 -George
>
>
>
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/ch02s04.html#s2-steps-make-cd
>
> this command (in the documentation) needs a space in it:
> cp -r <path-to-cd>/isolinux/<path-to-workspace>
>
>
> The chmod command is skipping the isolinux directory and all
> subdirectories and files.  Also, I did need the read permission too.
> So, this command in the directions is incorrect:
> chmod u+w isolinux/*
>
> The mkisofs command in the browser is only one line.  So the \ is
> confusing in the line and it is not clear to some people that this is
> the line continuation character.  This command should appear as 2 lines
> or that continuation char and explanation should be removed.
>
> The boot seems to expect to find vmlinuz in a sub-folder called
> isolinux.  This is the error I see:
>
> 7/18/2012 11:42:31 AM Error: Starting VM ''CentOS 6.0 (64-bit)
> (kickstart)'' - INVALID_SOURCE - Unable to access a required file
in the
> specified repository: file:///tmp/cdrom-repo-6ZKdE0/isolinux/vmlinuz.
>
> Like the chmod mistake above, the file.iso produced by your mkisofs
> command did not include the  isolinux folder (just the files in the
> folder).  So, I changed the mkisofs command to collect files in
"." and
> to store the file.iso one level up "../file.iso" ... 
isolinux.bin and
> boot.cat paths needed adjusting too.
>
>
>
>
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