Topic: creating your own custom iso..e-smith+contribs?

[Craig Jensen]

Has anyone done/seen this?  I would like to have several CD burnable iso's;  say, one with base e-smith55 + contribs with strength in "web-hosting" , and thus a "web-hosting" server...with the contribs included; and maybe another w/base 55 + a game package or two, thus a "game-server" installation iso....

Is this possible?  I already have been doing the above with four options 1. Base server (w/contribs to *sparkle* it up a bit) 2. File-sharing server (with a number of related contribs) and so on....yet these are all just installations from the iso of v55 and THEN contrib install at post base install.

??

Thanks again in advance.

[Craig Foster]

I've ended up using SME 5.1.2 and creating a CD with five different directories.
Each directory uses three types of files :- install.sh, PACKAGES.TGZ & SOURCE.TGZ, and the individual RPMs required.

The directories are modem (modem utilities & manager options), stats (snmp and other stats pachackes), file sharing (samba + XPLogon.reg), collaboration (phpnuke + phorum), and games (Half-Life, UT, Q3A dedicated servers + utils)

If a customer wants modem and filesharing, I run /mnt/cdrom/modem/install.sh and /mnt/cdrom/filesharing/install.sh and the RPMs are installed and a console-save initiated.

See Darrell Mays site (http://myezserver.com) for more ideas regarding the install.sh script (Ta Darrell !)

Craig F.

[Bill Talcott]

See http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/e-smith-custom-iso.html too.

[Craig Jensen]

Thanks much Craig.  I will try this method.  I have also read the one written by Jaime Nebrera at:

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/e-smith-custom-iso.html

I will try each.

Thanks again!

[alec]

what version of anaconda do i need for sme 5.5?
RedHat-7.3 for i386? or older???

thanx

[Aaron Wilde]

ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/GordonRowell/SRPMS/anaconda-7.0.1-143es.src.rpm

You will have to do a "rpm --rebuild anaconda-7.0.1-143es.src.rpm" on it to compile it against your kernel.

I think you need to do this on a redhat box.  (7.1+)

If you are experienced, this is no problem.  Why didn't they just release a RPM instead of the SRPM?

[Aaron Wilde]

Accually, if you just want to add RPMS to your CD, you can use a stock anaconda-7.0 and anaconda-runtime (7.0).

Just install it with the --nodeps flag.

When I try to compile the E-smith version of it, I'm getting a stupid error every time...

cannot find -ldb-3.1
[genhdlist] Error 1

I've upgraded my gcc/cc compiling tools, installed Berkley DB 4... WTF.

I don't know why e-smith just didn't release a RPM.