Hi Torsten, The lorax tool should get you where you are going. It ships within SL7.
Pat This doc might help: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/Lorax-TreeBuilder https://www.brianlane.com/creating-the-anaconda-bootiso-with-lorax.html On 10/15/2015 06:54 AM, Torsten Luettgert wrote:
Hello all, I'm looking for a way to create own "install media" - an install repo tree would be fine, too, because the boxen I'm setting up are all installed via PXE from an nfs tree. In SL6, there was this revisor thingy (http://scientificlinux.org/documentation/customize-sl-for-your-site/) which looks perfect; there is no revisor in SL7, though, and I think I remember it being discontinued. Is there a replacement which enables me to throw a truckload of RPMs on top of the SL7.1 install RPMs and create an install tree from them? Thanks for help and best regards, Torsten P.S.: if anyone's interested, the background is this: I'm working on an internal product which sets up a bunch of KVM machines working together in a defined way (heavily firewalled, intricate internal networking etc.); a test run will create and configure 21 machines from scratch and takes a whopping 19 hours now. A lot of time is wasted during the installs for pulling and installing updates, setting up other repos and installing needed packages from there, then re-checking for updates during the first configuration run (I'm using salt for this). A customized tree would speed things up a lot.
-- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory www.fnal.gov www.scientificlinux.org
