Custom Linux bootable CD

From WBITT's Cooker!

This article is in relation to the article CENTOS Server CD project , and is "heavily" based on http://people.redhat.com/rkeech/custom-distro.txt .

So here it goes. First, the setup.

I have a directory /data/cdimages, which looks like the following:

[root@kworkhorse cdimages]# pwd
/data/cdimages

[root@kworkhorse cdimages]# tree -d
.
├── CentOS-5.4-x86_64
│   ├── CentOS
│   ├── images
│   │   ├── pxeboot
│   │   └── xen
│   ├── isolinux
│   ├── NOTES
│   └── repodata
└── CentOS-5.4-x86_64-core

[root@kworkhorse cdimages]# 

As you can see, I have created a directory /data/cdimages/CentOS-5.4-x86_64-core just now, which will be the custom install tree, and referred to as $RHROOT.

Before you continue, it is required that you install the following packages on your base OS. ( I am using Fedora 11 64 bit as build host.)

yum -y install anaconda anaconda-runtime mkisofs cdrecord