[Mageia-dev] automatic chroot install using urpmi

Wed Jun 8 14:23:04 CEST 2011

Vasiliy G Tolstov skrev 8.6.2011 15:14:
+> Hello. I'm glad to announce, that mageia linux is in testing mode on our
+> cloud vps hosting (clodo.ru).
+> After build image i have one question - is that possible to do fully
+> automatic install with this script:
+>
+> #!/bin/bash
+>
+> export LC_ALL=C
+>
+> ROOT=$1
+> ARCH=$2
+> VERSION=$3
+>
+> mount -o bind /dev ${ROOT}/dev/
+> mount -o bind /sys ${ROOT}/sys/
+> mount -t proc none ${ROOT}/proc/
+>
+> if [ "x${ARCH}" != "xx86_64" ] ; then
+>    ARCH="i586"
+> fi
+>
+> urpmi.addmedia --urpmi-root ${ROOT} --distrib
+> http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mageia/distrib/${VERSION}/${ARCH}
+> urpmi -v --replacefiles --ignoresize --urpmi-root ${ROOT} basesystem
+> urpmi -v --replacefiles --ignoresize --urpmi-root ${ROOT} openssh-server
+> ntpd
+
+No need to make it 2 steps, you can push all in one go...
+
+
+>
+> One problem is: urpmi try to get answers for installing default init
+> system, default boot loader and some other questions.... How can i avoid
+> it to do full unattended install?
+>
+
+Either use --auto, or be specific (add all packages you get a question 
+about):
+urpmi -v --replacefiles --ignoresize --urpmi-root ${ROOT} basesystem 
+openssh-server ntpd grub sysvinit
+
+And if you dont need the kernel, you can use basesystem-minimal and dont 
+need to specify grub
+
+--
+Thomas
+