Hi!
Assuming I have all the files (basically I've downloaded the ISOs) of CentOS 4 (RC1 for now, but 4.0 in the future) how do I recreate the ISO images - both to regain the original 4 CDs (less important) - and to achieve a DVD image (more important but can probably be guessed from the answer to how to make the CDs). Any takers? [note I've burned many CDs - I'm basically asking for the command line to mkisofs et al to get an as near bit-perfect as possible ISO from source files only]
Furthermore, even though I'm very new here, I'd suggest splitting up this mailing list into announce lists for the various releases (ie centos-announce-3.4 and the like, for updates/etc, with no posting by non-admins/maintainers) and a general discussion list (possibly also split into centos-2/3/4/all). Just my two cents.
Cheers, MaZe.
Hi Eonwe!
Dnia 23-02-2005, śro o godzinie 21:40 +0100, Maciej Żenczykowski napisał (a):
I'd suggest splitting up this mailing list into announce lists for the various releases (ie centos-announce-3.4 and the like, for updates/etc, with no posting by non-admins/maintainers) and a general discussion list (possibly also split into centos-2/3/4/all).
I for one vote for centos-announce for all the releases. The list would be low-volume anyhow, and C3 users would love to hear about the awaited C4 release from the one list they're on :)
Splitting centos list doesn't make much sense because there will be less and less questions relating to older releases in time. Look at this months traffic - all of it relating to 3.x (the current "stable") and 4 RC1. This is not going to change in the future and the volume is acceptable atm.
Lam
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-2] Maciej {enczykowski wrote:
Hi!
Assuming I have all the files (basically I've downloaded the ISOs) of CentOS 4 (RC1 for now, but 4.0 in the future) how do I recreate the ISO images - both to regain the original 4 CDs (less important) - and to achieve a DVD image (more important but can probably be guessed from the answer to how to make the CDs). Any takers? [note I've burned many CDs - I'm basically asking for the command line to mkisofs et al to get an as near bit-perfect as possible ISO from source files only]
Why not use cdrecord instead of mkisofs, speed=2 for those who dont even like jitter, although I would burn at full speed.
# cdrecord -v -eject speed=2 centos-disc1.iso
Then you can use the linux media check feature by typing that at the boot prompt of the first CentOS CD to verify your burnt media.
//Chris
And how exactly does this burn a DVD?
Why not use cdrecord instead of mkisofs, speed=2 for those who dont even like jitter, although I would burn at full speed.
# cdrecord -v -eject speed=2 centos-disc1.iso
Then you can use the linux media check feature by typing that at the boot prompt of the first CentOS CD to verify your burnt media.
//Chris _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
It might be - especially if one will be provided, but there are still cases were one wants to modify (add/remove packages) the DVD image, or add in other install time utilities...
And even if a DVD image will be provided it would still be nice to be able to recreate the DVD image from the CDs and vice versa without having to download the entire set (jigdo templates for both the CDs and the DVD would be nice).
Cheers, MaZe.
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Leszek Matok wrote:
Dnia 23-02-2005, śro o godzinie 22:22 +0100, Maciej Żenczykowski napisał (a):
And how exactly does this burn a DVD?
Isn't it simpler to just download DVD iso image? :) Yes, there will be one when C4 is officialy released.
Lam
CentOS mailing list CentOS@caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Dnia 23-02-2005, Maciej Żenczykowski napisaŠ(a):
And how exactly does this burn a DVD?
To avoid all these cd/dvd burning, the simplest, from my point of view, is to put all the content of the iso images in a directory that could be accessed by nfs or http.
Burning only the 1st cd is then necessary.
Booting from that cd and starting the installation with linux askmethod will then prompt for a choice. Selecting http will then prompt for a screen like this one: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-begin...
Of course, that solution is not possible if the network driver is not available out of the box.
This solution is great for kickstart installations.
Anne, tired of burning
OK thats very nice, I'll probably use this, however I'm wondering why we can't simply have a single command line answer from the folks who actually make these iso images...?
Cheers, MaZe.
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Anne Possoz wrote:
Dnia 23-02-2005, Maciej ?>>enczykowski napisa? (a):
And how exactly does this burn a DVD?
To avoid all these cd/dvd burning, the simplest, from my point of view, is to put all the content of the iso images in a directory that could be accessed by nfs or http.
Burning only the 1st cd is then necessary.
Booting from that cd and starting the installation with linux askmethod will then prompt for a choice. Selecting http will then prompt for a screen like this one: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-begin...
Of course, that solution is not possible if the network driver is not available out of the box.
This solution is great for kickstart installations.
Anne, tired of burning
CentOS mailing list CentOS@caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Anne Possoz wrote:
Dnia 23-02-2005, Maciej Żenczykowski napisał (a):
And how exactly does this burn a DVD?
There is a conversation going on that you can follow on this link :
https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2005-February/msg00138.html
Some links are provided to various dvd building scripts. your milage may vary. as always, test and test often.
To avoid all these cd/dvd burning, the simplest, from my point of view, is to put all the content of the iso images in a directory that could be accessed by nfs or http.
Burning only the 1st cd is then necessary.
You dont need to burn the cd-1. loop mount the cd-1's .iso file, and look in the /images/ directory - depending on the {arch} being installed, you will find boot.iso files. Usually just a few MB in size. Burn those instead of the entire CD-1.
Booting from that cd and starting the installation with linux askmethod will then prompt for a choice. Selecting http will then prompt for a screen like this one: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-begin...
You might be better of working through the doc set available at :
http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.0beta/docs/
Of course, that solution is not possible if the network driver is not available out of the box.
This solution is great for kickstart installations.
Anne, tired of burning
Tried PXE yet ? wont even need to burn that 1 cd anymore. Even on a moderately busy 100mbps network, I've found the network installs to be faster than Cd-Rom. Or then maybe I just have slow cd-roms' :D)
- K
It's not exactly what you asked for, but here's a pointer to the procedure for building a DVD from the Red Hat 8 CD ISO images:
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/story14425.html
I've used the same procedure, modified appropriately, to create DVD ISOs of FC 1 and 2 and RHEL 3 with good results.
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