About
Quoth The Maven, Yet another Blosxom blog.
Subscribe
Subscribe to a syndicated feed of my weblog,
brought to you by the wonders of RSS.
Flavours
There's more than one way to view this weblog; try these flavours on
for size.
Links
These are a few of my favourite links.
Wed, 11 Jan 2006
Hacking Anaconda
Kicking myself for forgetting, I just had to spend an hour
re-remembering how to properly hack the Red Hat /
Fedora installer known as anaconda. Here it is so I won't have to kick
myself again:
$ mkdir temp1 $ sudo mount -o loop netstg2.img temp1/ $ cp -a temp1/ temp2/Then patch temp2/ or make whatever changes you need:
$ mkcramfs temp2/ netstg2-patched.img $ sudo umount temp1 $ rm -fr temp1/ temp2/However, I discovered something new. The image has grown so large that older/pristine releases of util-linux hit the MAXENTRIES hard limit in mkcramfs. The trick is to use a more recent build that incorporates the patch written for bug 171337.