making custom iso images

[brian Moore]

greetings, well, didn't think of all that.  thanks.  will give it a
shot and se what I can do.

Brian.


>
>      Since you're using ks.cfg, I'll guess that your distro uses
> Anaconda.
> Install the anaconda and anaconda-runtime RPMs.  mount the CD and use
cp
> -a to copy the contents to your HDD.  Replace the RPM packages you
find
> there with the modified ones.  You speak of CD in the singular.  RH7
had
> two.  If you only have one, cd to /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime type:
> "./genhdlist <path_to_installation_tree>".  If you have two Cd's
you'll
> need to copy both of them to the HDD.  The genhdlist command would
> look like
> this: "./genhdlist <path1> <path2> --withnumbers".  If you really
want to
> go all the way, and you're sure that the version of Anaconda is the
same
> for SME and RH7.0, you could download the Anaconda packages from the
same
> place you got the kernel packages.  They have the Speakup keymap
built in.
> The buildinstall command in the /usr/lib/\anaconda-runtime directory
will
> make a completely new installation tree.  Since you use kickstart,
this
> might not be very important to you.  Now for the CD.  You can use the
> strings command on the raw CD image to extract the commandline of the
> mkisofs command that was used to create them.  Pipe to grep mkisofs.
> You'll want to edit out the version number such as 1.13.  If you have
any
> questions, call or write.
>
>
>
>
>           HTH.