Perhaps someone knows how to do the step that I stopped on, which was to
generate a disk/disc image for booting from the cdrom. The default
Redhat installer uses a 2.8M installer image in the dosutils/autoboot
directory of the cd:
2.8M cdboot.img
1.9M initrd.img
Which appears to be a 2.8M boot image which contains:
784k of vmlinuz (kernel) and
1.9M of initrd.img plus
various bootup files.
I need to make one of these and then I can probably make a cd that boots
with a different kernel. By simply using mkinitrd it makes a minimalist
initrd image.
I already did these other steps too:
*) Added the xfs utilities to RedHat/base/stage2.img
*) Added the xfs utility rpms to Redhat/RPMS on disc1 and disc2
*) modified RedHat/base/comps to include xfs util rpms
*) updated hdlist/hdlist2 in Redhat/base/ using genhdlist from the
anaconda 7.3 source
*) learned about embedding the MD5 into the implantisomd5 and
checkisomd5 from the anaconda 7.3 source
*) examined the anaconda source code for claimed xfs support
(it appears to append XFS to the list of available filesystems
if that filesystem choice is available, more work here is needed)
-Mike
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