Additionals rpm to red hat iso with a kickstart file

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I spent a very long time searching for an answer in internet but I found nothing. I want to add custom rpm to a red hat workstation iso dvd. I do the following things:

  • mount a red hat iso (mount -t iso9660 rhel-workstation-6.4-i386-dvd.iso /mnt/iso)

  • copy all dvd files to a directory including hidden .discinfo and .treeinfo files :
    cp -R /mnt/iso/* /tmp/isofiles;
    cp/mnt/iso/.discinfo /tmp/isofiles;
    cp /mnt/iso/.treeinfo /tmp/isofiles

  • then I add additionals rpm to the /tmp/isofiles/Packages directory which is a part of the dvd tree

  • then I rebuild the repo in /tmp/isofiles with the command createrepo (createrepo --update -g comps.xml .)
  • at last I rebuild the iso with mkisofs and burn it to a dvd. Note that I also have a kickstart file to automate the installation. The problem is that during the rpm installation step the dvd is ejected and I have a message that ask me to insert the Red Hat Linux Entreprise disc 1. I don't understand why. This only appears if I modified the repository. Can you help me please ?
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Is the RedHat version of your system (where your ran createrepo command) same as the version of redhat.iso that you are modifying?

Not sure if its same, but similar issue has been answered here

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This is the syntax i have used for RHEL 6, and it works just fine I just add my rpms to the default Server folder

#for a new Boot disk, delete the contents of ~/repodata , this clears out he old rpm lists
#copy cda5429be6f36ce1...-comps-rhel6-Server.xml repodata/comps-rhel6-Server.xml from Official RHEL iso
#run the command below, will create all the needed files
discinfo=`head -1 .discinfo
createrepo -u "media://$discinfo" -g $compdata .