This weekend, I got my new computer. It has some brand new hardware, featuring an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ on an Abit AN7 board, 1GB of RAM, 2 SATA Seagate harddisks and an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. It works great, but ofcourse I want to run Linux on this. I want to install Fedora Core 1, since Redhat and later on Fedora has always been my distribution of choice. But, it's not so easy....

First of all, I wanted to create an updated DVD with all the latest updates. There are several webpages describing the different processes (creating a DVD and rebuilding the installer), but it takes a long time to figure out all the steps AND to fix all the minor issues:

1. when using Fedora, you need to use the --prodpath in some of the command lines, since the RPM directory on the dvd is called Fedora instead of Redhat
2. you cannot update the vnc and pango packages, since they cause problems when building the installer; pango will give you errors since pango-query-modules was renamed to pango-query-modules-32. vnc will simply hang the buildinstall script and send you cpu to 100% usage.

I came up with this script:

#!/bin/bash -x

DVD=/tmp/fedora/dvd
ISO=/tmp/fedora/fedora-1.iso
REL="Fedora"
export PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/anaconda:/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime"

rm -f $DVD/Fedora/base/hdlist*
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --productpath Fedora $DVD
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder $DVD i386 Fedora > $DVD/pkgorder.txt
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/buildinstall --comp dist-1 
        --pkgorder $DVD/pkgorder.txt --version 1 --product "$REL" 
        --release "$REL" --prodpath Fedora $DVD
mkisofs 
    -f 
    -A "$REL" 
    -V "$REL" 
    -J 
    -R 
    -q 
    -T 
    -o $ISO 
    -b isolinux/isolinux.bin 
    -c isolinux/boot.cat 
    -no-emul-boot 
    -boot-load-size 4 
    -boot-info-table 
    $DVD
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/implantisomd5 --force $ISO