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diff --git a/docs/README b/docs/README index 1c2ac3bd5..e04ea5829 100644 --- a/docs/README +++ b/docs/README @@ -22,6 +22,17 @@ sometimes wonder what the whole make does :-% Instead, changing some .pm files is quite easy (nice interpreted language) ******************************************************************************** +* Making your custom install cdrom ********************************************* +******************************************************************************** +If you have your own rpms you want to add, or make your own updated cdrom, you +just have to update: +- Mandrake/base/hdlist: use ``misc/genhdlist .'' +- Mandrake/base/depslist: use ``misc/gendepslist -h Mandrake/base/depslist Mandrake/base/hdlist'' + +Optionnally, you can modify Mandrake/base/compss, compssList and compssUsers +See below for information about these files. + +******************************************************************************** * FILES ************************************************************************ ******************************************************************************** First he are the different things needed : @@ -39,6 +50,10 @@ Mandrake/base/compss obsoletes comps. It store packages in different categories, a bit like the %{GROUP} field +Mandrake/base/compssUsers + obsoletes comps. It contains the different user classes like ``Graphics + Manipulation'' and ``Games'' + Mandrake/base/compssList for each packages, it gives the appreciation for each type of user. used to preselect packages @@ -67,6 +82,36 @@ Mandrake/base/depslist.html html formatted depslist ******************************************************************************** +* logs ************************************************************************* +******************************************************************************** +During install, a lot of interesting stuff can be found in different places: +in consoles and in files. To switch to console 2 for example, do Ctrl-Alt-F2 +from the X install. +- alt-F1: the stdout of the install. Not very interesting stuff +- alt-F2: simple shell. Quite a lot of commands are available but as they are +written in perl (for space), they do not handle the very same options as normal. +After install, you can do ``chroot /mnt'' to see your system just like after +rebooting. ``rpm -qa'' works for example. +- alt-F3: a lot of interesting things. Be carefull, some ``ERROR'' messages are +not interesting. +- alt-F4: kernel's place. aka the output of dmesg. +- alt-F5: the graphical install lives there (may switch to console 7 one day :) +- alt-F7: the output of commands (like lilo or mke2fs). + +- /tmp/ddebug.log: same (or nearly the same) as alt-F3 +- /tmp/syslog: same as alt-F4 +- /mnt/root/ddebug.log: at the end of each step, DrakX tries to backup +/tmp/ddebug.log to /mnt/root. Available only after mounting of /. +- /mnt/root/install.log: the log of the installation (or upgrade) of the rpms +(just like rpm's /mnt/tmp/(install|upgrade).log) +- /mnt/root/auto_inst.cfg.pl: a kickstart file generated at the end of each +step. Can be used in 2 ways: kickstart install or ``defcfg'' install. Hopefully +you know about kickstart. ``defcfg'' is a way to customize the default values in +install. For example, French can be the default language with a qwerty keyboard, +the auto-partitionning partitions can be changed, the default user class can be +set to developer (!)... + +******************************************************************************** * po translation files ********************************************************* ******************************************************************************** DrakX uses .po files for its translation. A script takes the different |