Tony,
Thanks for that, I had just come to the same solution after looking at the
source code to genhdlist. It appears that CD disk numbers are only
put into the hdlist if --withnumbers is specified.
Cheers again
Terry
Tony Nugent wrote:
> On Wed Mar 07 2001 at 14:12, Terry Barnaby wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > I copy RPMS into the two disk RPM directories.
> > I create disk1/.disk1-i386 and disk2/.disk2-i386
> > I run /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist /.../disk1 /.../disk2
>
> Try it like this:
>
> /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers /.../disk1 /.../disk2
>
> --with numbers seems to be necessary (not sure why it is not the
> default. Heh, I'm not even sure what it actually does :)
>
> > Then I create the ISO file systems and create the CD's from these.
> > Using these CD's to install goes well until during package installation I
> > get and error
> > which appears to be the installer trying to load an RPM that is on the
> > second disk.
> >
> > Any ideas ?
>
> Works for me.
>
> (BTW, for experimental work like this, try using re-writable CDs --
> unless you like making lots of fancy coffee coasters :-)))
>
> Cheers
> Tony
>
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