[WBEL-users] Whitebox Respin Repository

[Kirby C. Bohling]

Michael,

	I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are saying, so I'll
instead tell you what I have done that does in fact work:

On our repository we have a filesystem with these two directories:

/mirrors/whitebox/3.0
/mirrors/whitebox/3.0-respin1

/mirrors/whitebox/3.0-respin1 is nothing more then a copy of each
ISO image from the respin, copied using a command like this:

( cd /mnt/cdrom ; tar cf - ) | ( cd /mirrors/whitebox/3.0-respin1/en/os/i386/ ; tar xpvf - )

Now, in your kickstart (I use HTTP), I can use "-respin1" as my
source, assuming that the ISO I am booting from is the first disk,
or the ISO image from images/boot.iso from the first CD (that is a
3.1MB iso image that you can use).  If you use an ISO from the
original release, or the boot.iso from the original release, you
can't use the -respin1 directory tree as your install image.

I maintain both copies (I really should hardlink the two, but I'm
fairly lazey).  Alternatively, if you need to save space, I believe
you can structure them with "Disk1", "Disk2", and "Disk3" after the
i386 dir and mount loopback the ISO images.  However, I can't swear
to that, as I've never done it with Whitebox.  

	Thanks,
		Kirby

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:46:35PM +0100, Michael Lang wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> ive a question about Whitebox Respin release and Repository Build.
> As my company decided to use Whitebox instead of RedHat we setup many
> machines using Kickstart installation to automate as much as possible.
> 
> When we started there was Whitebox 3 (without Respin) and now the
> current Release is Respin 1. Now theres a difference on the Repositorys
> as booting with a Respin CD and trying to use a 'normal' Whitebox
> Install Repository ends up in anaconda Problem telling that the
> Repository doesnt match the install Source.
> 
> So far so good, ive tryed to upgrade the Repository to a Respin 1
> Repository. Created the Directory structure put it to a FTP Server
> space, compared it with the current update releases, exchanged older
> Packages, build hdlist Files new and tryed to install a Machine.
> 
> The Machine installes through till postconf Section as we call there
> some custom commands. The Install log tells that some basic commands are
> missing like 'cat', 'ls', ... (coreutils Package) which doesnt get
> installed as failures occure in the PostInstall Section of the RPM. Also
> on some other RPMS (nearly everyone that triggers Postinstall). 
> 
> Did someone already build a Respin Repository with updated packages ?
> The same scripts (for update) work fine on the 'normal' Repository.
> 
> thanks for any hint,
> Kind regards
> Michael Lang
> 
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