[WBEL-devel] How to create a "Bodged" Whitebox respin Install CD allow installon new hardware.

[Tres Seaver]

Gary Mansell wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if it would be possible to create a "bodged" Whitebox
> install CD that has the latest kernel on it so that it is possible to
> install Whitebox on the latest hardware that is around now.
> 
> Looking at the CD and John's instructions, it seems to me that it should
> be easy to put a later kernel on the boot CD by burning a new one with a
> later kernel's vmlinuz file in the /isolinux directory of the CD. This,
> I presume will allow the installer to run with the new hardware. I guess
> that the real problem is how to install the latest kernel rpm at install
> time. Can anyone give me any ideas here?
> 
> I presume that the rest of the packages can be up2dated in the normal
> manner after a reboot into the newly installed kernel.
> 
> Any help gladly appreciated as I have not been able to install Whitebox
> onto any of the new machines that I have been buying recently.

A couple of ideas:

  - You could do a kickstart-based install, and add a line to install
    the kernel you want in its '%post' section.

  - You could loopback mount a copy of the disc 1 ISO and replace the
    'kernel*.rpm' files inside it.

Tres.
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