[Mageia-dev] automatic chroot install using urpmi

[Vasiliy G Tolstov]

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 ?

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Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov at selfip.ru>
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