[Xen-users] centos.org 5 Installation_Guide-en-US/ch02s04.html#s2-steps-make-cd

[James Calfee <jcalfee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There seems to be several problems in this kickstart cd document.  I
guess this was copied from RedHat's documentation.  Can someone please
direct me or my comments to the right person?


http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/ch02s04.html#s2-steps-make-cd

this command (in the documentation) needs a space in it:
cp -r <path-to-cd>/isolinux/<path-to-workspace>


The chmod command is skipping the isolinux directory and all
subdirectories and files.  Also, I did need the read permission too.
So, this command in the directions is incorrect: 
chmod u+w isolinux/*

The mkisofs command in the browser is only one line.  So the \ is
confusing in the line and it is not clear to some people that this is
the line continuation character.  This command should appear as 2 lines
or that continuation char and explanation should be removed.

The boot seems to expect to find vmlinuz in a sub-folder called
isolinux.  This is the error I see:

7/18/2012 11:42:31 AM Error: Starting VM 'CentOS 6.0 (64-bit)
(kickstart)' - INVALID_SOURCE - Unable to access a required file in the
specified repository: file:///tmp/cdrom-repo-6ZKdE0/isolinux/vmlinuz.

Like the chmod mistake above, the file.iso produced by your mkisofs
command did not include the  isolinux folder (just the files in the
folder).  So, I changed the mkisofs command to collect files in "." and
to store the file.iso one level up "../file.iso" ...  isolinux.bin and
boot.cat paths needed adjusting too.




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