Eric Sandeen wrote:
> "redhat.angus" wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have mixed SGI CD and RedHat disc1 in one CD.
> > It works but I would like to modify the installer to not ask for SGI CD
> > (whereas it is the same) thus avoiding one CD swap.
> > I just create .disc3-i386 on CD 1 to avoid anaconda to crash and it's
> > worked.
> >
> > I looked at anaconda-7.1-xfs.patch from src.rpm but i do not have finds
> > my happiness.
>
> Look at line 173 in the patched image.py - change
>
> self.currentDisc = 3
>
> to
>
> self.currentDisc = 1
BTW you will need to hack this change in to the stage2 image.
mount it up as ext2 via the loop device, and make the change.
or completely rebuild anaconda and the installer images.
>
>
>
> and put .disc1-i386 on your combination CD - that should do it.
>
> > Finally, can somebody explain me the use of --fileorder argument to
> > genhdlist binary ?
>
> You may not need to use it if you only have 2 discs...
Order on the Red Hat dics have been modified.. you will need to pull the
list
and replace the kernel and devfs versions with the XFS versions.
> basically, you
> can pass a modified installation order (just a list of RPMs) into
> genhdlist, and that will put the install order in the generated hdlist.
> Otherwise, it will use a default order based on dependencies, and you
> may wind up with extra disc swaps.
>
> HTH,
>
> -Eric
>
> --
> Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
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