Hi,

I've been trying to test the installer change below before RC4, thinking that it might be quite helpful.

I am having a little bit of trouble however. Could someone point me in the right direction on a couple
of things.

1. How does the src tar.xz file for drakx-installer-stage2 get created? I assume it comes from a
build of svn://svn.mageia.org/svn/soft/drakx/trunk, but can't find how it ends up as a tar.xz

2. When I've built a new stage2, any tricks on getting it into an ISO?

I tried building an ISO based on beta3, with the new stage2, using something like:
mkisofs -o ~nelg/Mageia-3-beta3-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-3-beta3-x86_64-DVD-stage2.iso -b x86_64/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot.catalog -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -iso-level 4 -J -R /tmp/tt/

This is clearly not right. Is the a documented method I should use to build a new ISO with a modified stage2?
In the docs I have read: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Drakx-installer_tips_and_tricks#rebuild_the_stage_2
and svn://svn.mageia.org/svn/soft/drakx/trunk/docs/README, I have not been able to find instructions on actually putting together an ISO.

Is: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/How_to_remaster_a_personal_Mandriva-based_ISO relevant for Mageia? I guess not, as mkcd does not seem to exist in Mageia.

So, a quick howto, or pointing me to the right documentation would be great :)

Regards
Glen Ogilvie

On 22 March 2013 12:15, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

Please let in drakxtools & drakx-installer-stage2

drakxtools:
========
- bootloader-config:
o do not build initrd if no bootloader is detected and
--no-initd argument is supplied
- diskdrake:
o actually preserve UUID when formatting (mga#9428)
- drakauth:
o install nss-pam-ldapd instead of nss_ldap (mga#9375)

drakx-installer-stage2
================
- do not disable module autoloading (mga#9428)
- authentication:
o install nss-pam-ldapd instead of nss_ldap (mga#9375)
- partitionning:
o actually preserve UUID when formatting (mga#9428)

thx