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Subject:
trying to add an RPM to SL live filesystem
From:
Miles O'Neal <[log in to unmask]>
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Miles O'Neal <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:33:59 -0600
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We use a kickstart CDROM, but load the RPMs across
the nwtwork from a filer.  Our new systems use an
ethernet chip not supported by vanilla SL304.  We
have an updated CDROM that uses the driver, and we
have an RPM with the driver files that we can manually
install.

BUT... we need that RPM installed as part of the base
kickstart so the CDROM is plug and play.  Otherwise
the POST script fails because it can't find the ethernet
driver.

I added the sk98lin rpm to the directlry containing
all the other RPMS (/SciLinux/3.0.4/32bit/LiveFS/SL/RPMS)
and ran:

   sudo /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist /SciLinux/3.0.4/32bit/LiveFS

but this consistent fails with a mesage like:

mmap error on (null)
genhdlist:              genhdlist [--withnumbers] [--fileorder <path>] [--hdlist <path>] [--site <path>] [--default <name>] [--ignorefile <name>] [--ignorelog <name>] <paths>+

If I run this on a 305 system I get

error creating file /export/os_images/SciLinux/3.0.4/32bit/LiveFS/(null)/base/hdlist: No such file or directory

Where is this (null) coming from?

There's no man page for genhdlist.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Miles

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