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| Markus R. Keßler... |
 Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:10 am |
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Hi there,
/* yes, I know that Mandrake 10.1 is not the most uptodate OS  */
just a little question: has anyone already tried to create an
installation DVD from the -- depending on the package -- 3 or 7
installation cds?
I'm asking this, because I'd like to have one disk containing every
package before the disks get unreadable one day.
Well, the _Mandriva_ dvd seems to have only the main and the contrib
directory, and in these two directories there are all the files
without further subdirectories. Otherwise the installer cannot find
the needed files.
The next issue is, how to get this disk bootable.
Any experiences?
Best regards,
Markus
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| David W. Hodgins... |
| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:43 am |
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On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:10:15 -0400, Markus R. Keßler <dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de> wrote:
Quote: Well, the _Mandriva_ dvd seems to have only the main and the contrib
directory, and in these two directories there are all the files
without further subdirectories. Otherwise the installer cannot find
the needed files.
See if it has genhdlist or genhdlist2 available, for updating the hdlist.ca
files, after you've removed/added the rpm packages.
Quote: The next issue is, how to get this disk bootable.
See http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/cd-roms.html
Regards, Dave Hodgins
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| Dave Farrance... |
| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:34 pm |
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dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de (Markus R. Keßler) wrote:
Quote: just a little question: has anyone already tried to create an
installation DVD from the -- depending on the package -- 3 or 7
installation cds?
I'd have thought that creating a DVD from the CDs was merely a case of
merging the directory structure together and using mkisofs to create a
DVD iso, using the existing isolinux files from one of the CDs to make it
bootable. I've not tried it, so I could be wrong.
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| Jim Whitby... |
| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:35 pm |
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Dave Farrance wrote:
Quote: dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de (Markus R. Keßler) wrote:
just a little question: has anyone already tried to create an
installation DVD from the -- depending on the package -- 3 or 7
installation cds?
I'd have thought that creating a DVD from the CDs was merely a case of
merging the directory structure together and using mkisofs to create a
DVD iso, using the existing isolinux files from one of the CDs to make it
bootable. I've not tried it, so I could be wrong.
There is a script file, mdvcd2dvd.sh, that will do the job. Its on Mandriva.com...someplace.
If you don't/can't find it. let me know. I'll send it via email.
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| Markus R." Keßler... |
| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:53 pm |
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On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:43:56 -0400 David W. Hodgins wrote:
Well, what's still not clear to me is how to "capture" the boot image
from an existing cd for combining / remastering it with other data to
burn a new disc, without the need for creating a floppy first.
Most "boot disc how to" pages describe how to extract this image using
"WinImage". - Can anyone point me to how to extract this image with
native linux tools?
Thanks,
Best regards,
Markus
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| Dave Farrance... |
| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:24 pm |
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"Markus R." Keßler <dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de> wrote:
Quote: Well, what's still not clear to me is how to "capture" the boot image
from an existing cd for combining / remastering it with other data to
burn a new disc, without the need for creating a floppy first.
Most "boot disc how to" pages describe how to extract this image using
"WinImage". - Can anyone point me to how to extract this image with
native linux tools?
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/ISOLINUX
There should an isolinux directory already on the CDs that contain files
that you can reuse. Dunno if the config file in there needs tweaking.
But Google for the shell script that Jim Whitby mentioned, which he said
would do it all for you -- and if it needs tweaking for a given set of
CDs then figure out what it's doing.
And maybe it'd be a good idea to learn better how to pick out the
relevant keywords from replies to your questions and how best to search
on them.
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| Unruh... |
| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:37 pm |
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"Markus R." =?iso-8859-1?q?Ke=DFler?= <dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de> writes:
Quote: On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:43:56 -0400 David W. Hodgins wrote:
The next issue is, how to get this disk bootable.
See http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/cd-roms.html
Regards, Dave Hodgins
Well, what's still not clear to me is how to "capture" the boot image
from an existing cd for combining / remastering it with other data to
burn a new disc, without the need for creating a floppy first.
Quote: Most "boot disc how to" pages describe how to extract this image using
"WinImage". - Can anyone point me to how to extract this image with
native linux tools?
man mkisofs |
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| David W. Hodgins... |
| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:51 am |
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:53:57 -0400, Markus R. Keßler <dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de> wrote:
Quote: On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:43:56 -0400 David W. Hodgins wrote:
The next issue is, how to get this disk bootable.
See http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/cd-roms.html
Regards, Dave Hodgins
Well, what's still not clear to me is how to "capture" the boot image
from an existing cd for combining / remastering it with other data to
burn a new disc, without the need for creating a floppy first.
Mount the cd, or loop mount the existing iso file.
Copy the contents to a new directory on your hard drive.
Modify the contents in the new directory, making sure you will
not exceed the capactiy of the target drive.
Create a new iso image with a command similar to
mkisofs -r -b i586/install/images/all.img -c i586/isolinux/boot.cat -o bootcd.iso
Change the paths, if they are different then the above, which I got from a
2009.1 rc2 install dvd iso.
Then burn the iso to a cd.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
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| David W. Hodgins... |
| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:57 am |
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On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:51:50 -0400, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins at (no spam) nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
Quote: Create a new iso image with a command similar to
Sorry, forgot the path on the end ...
mkisofs -r -b i586/install/images/all.img -c i586/isolinux/boot.cat -o bootcd.iso /newdirectory
Regards, Dave Hodgins
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