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I want full installation of rhel-server-6.2-x86_64. Within this setup, I want to install some of 32bit glibc packages before completion of installation, which already available in rhel-server-6.2-x86_64-dvd.

I select all optional packages during installation, but as I see here redhat(anaconda) will not install 32bit libs. But it is supported in 5.x (I tried that in 5.5 & 5.7)? How to make this possible in 6.2 or 6.3? Is it possible to install packages from dvd by kickstart, if yes then how?

umläute
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    why is it crucial to install the 32bit libraries during the system installation? e.g. why can't you install them afterwards? – umläute Nov 06 '13 at 09:22
  • @umläute Our customer is not allow to install any addition packages after installation of os on h/w(spatially 32-bit),this was work fine on 5.x as mansion above. – krupal Nov 08 '13 at 12:04

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You can specify in the kickstart file that you want to install the 32-bit version of a package if running on a 64-bit machine.

To install a 32-bit package on a 64-bit system, you will need to append the package name with the 32-bit architecture the package was built for.

For example: glibc.i686

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-packageselection.html

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You can configure a kickstart with the GUI-based system-config-kickstart and specify that the installation must be done from the DVD or some other installation method.

If you want to install 32-bit libraries and anaconda can't do it (for some reason), you can make a %post section in the %packages definition, where you can install your 32-bit packages, and add more configuration options that you need. This section allows you to install them normally like if you were doing it from bash:

%post
yum install my32lib.i686
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