[Mageia-dev] automatic chroot install using urpmi

Wed Jun 8 14:26:35 CEST 2011

On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 15:23 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> 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
+
+Thank's for answer. Very well. If i use basesystem-minimal and append
+grub systemd ntpd openssh-server and kernel, does that system can
+boot-up ?
+
+-- 
+Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov at selfip.ru>
+Selfip.Ru
+
+