Manual tweaks to the FC9 install CD

Tue Apr 22 14:32:03 UTC 2008

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 09:39 -0400, Cary Maister wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've currently got a Bugzilla bug (#442457) open for an issue that 
> prevents me FC9 installation from even getting started - when detecting 
> my system hardware, hal chokes on a slash in my hard disk's indentifier.
> 
> In any case, since the bug hasn't been fixed yet (I'm sure there are 
> bigger fish to fry right now) I thought I'd take a shot at fixing it 
> myself so I can kick of my installation. The bug is located in the hal 
> Python scripts that are included in the stage2 squashfs image, which is 
> mounted read-only when I boot up with the CD. I've search done a ton of 
> searching but haven't found details on how I can modify those files and 
> create a new install CD including the modifications.
> 
> Anyone have any experience with something similar?

I couldn't install F9 Beta either, because of an Anaconda bug
apparently. Try the Preview version which came out a couple of days ago.
It has different bugs :-)

poc