• SPECS/anaconda.spec
• screenshots of progress

* http://lal.bizhat.com/docs/anaconda.html

I used http://www.linux-live.org/ and http://poldek.pld-linux.org/ to create the livecd.

The packages choice may vary for you, but here's my packages choice:

# cat base.lst
FHS
anaconda
basesystem
bash
blockdev
dhcpcd
eject
fix-info-dir
fsck
grub
iproute2
iputils-ping
less
linux-live
linux-live-kernel
lvm2
mingetty
mount
openssh-clients
openssh-server
pciutils
sed
terminfo
traceroute
udev
usbutils
vim
wget
wireless-tools

to install the root issue:

# poldek --pset=base.lst --uniq --install-dist=/path/to/root

to upgrade packages any time just issue:

# poldek -r /path/to/root -u anypackage

Install linux-live-build. You'll need kernel which has ext2 compiled in as default PLD Linux Distribution kernel doesn't provide that, you can download precompiled kernel from linux-live site. You should set password for root, or alter /etc/inittab to execute shell instanly after boot or you'll not be able to login.

To use the linux-live kernel, pay attention that you need only /boot/vmlinuz-$VERSION /lib/modules/$VERSION. just copy those to your installroot.

To build your CD use:

# ROOT=/path/to/your/root /usr/lib/linux-live/build

Then to create ISO, cd to the /tmp/live_data_* directory created by the above command. Then cd to your live name and run:

# sh make_iso.sh

as the installer will depend on repodata, you'll need to create repodata in your PLD Linux Distribution mirror.

cd dists/ac/PLD/i686
umask 2
createrepo -g comps.xml -c /tmp/cache1 -v PLD/RPMS/

NOTE: Currently PLD Linux AC and TH already have repodata on ftp.

after you've successfully booted from livecd and logged into root shell, invoke anaconda:

# cat /root/anaconda-install
export LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8
mirror=http://your-mirror/pld
arch=`arch`
url=$mirror/dists/ac/PLD/$arch/
anaconda --method=$url

this will just autodetect your archidecture and invoke anaconda install from url.