RHEL 5 custom DVD creation
To create a custom RHEL 5 DVD do the following.
- Insert the latest RHEL 5 DVD into the drive of a RHEL 5 Linux machine and copy the contents across to your build directory.
mkdir -p /data/iso-build
cd /data/iso-build
cp -R /media/CDROM/* ./
cp -R /media/CDROM/.[a-zA-Z]* ./
- You can then edit the ks.cfg and do all sorts of things to customise the install. I won't detail this here.
- The following is my quick and dirty build script to create the a new .iso file.
createrepo -g /data/iso-build/Server/repodata/comps-rhel6-Server.xml /data/iso-build/Server/
mkisofs -r -J -T -V "RHEL5 32" -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o /data/RHEL5-custom.iso /data/iso-build
RHEL 6 custom DVD creation
To create a custom RHEL 6 DVD do the following.
- Insert the latest RHEL 6 DVD into the drive of a RHEL 5 Linux machine and copy the contents across to your build directory.
mkdir -p /data/iso-build
cd /data/iso-build
cp -R /media/CDROM/* ./
cp -R /media/CDROM/.[a-zA-Z]* ./
- You can then edit the ks.cfg and do all sorts of things to customise the install. I won't detail this here.
- The following is my quick and dirty build script to create the a new .iso file
createrepo -s sha -g /data/iso-build/Server/repodata/comps-rhel6-Server.xml /data/iso-build/Server/
cp -Rf /data/iso-build/Server/repodata /data/iso-build/
mkisofs -r -J -T -V "RHEL6 32" -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o /data/RHEL6-custom.iso /data/iso-build
- There are two main differences. One I have to create the files in create repo with SHA1 not SHA256 which is the new default. Two I now have to copy the repodata directory to the top level from the Server directory. This seems to be needed otherwise anaconda has difficulty finding the yum repository. If the repodata directory doesn't also exist under the Server directory, then anaconda has difficulty finding the rpm files.
