Hi;
how to convert 7 cd iso images into one dvd image?
I am unable to use bittorrent :-(
Home ISP blocking bittorrent; company now blocks bittorrent.
I want/need an old release (CentOS 5.2) to install as a VirtualBox guest.
I suppose I could install from the cd iso images, but it is a pain to virtually eject and remount cd iso images during the install :-(
So, is there a technique or an open source tool that will create a dvd iso given the cd iso images?
Or how does one generate the dvd iso given a list of rpm files? (Assuming I had a list of all of the needed rpm files).
It would be nice if one had something like "make centos_5.2_dvd_iso" :-)
Thanks, Ken Wolcott kennethwolcott@gmail.com
On 01/14/2011 09:29 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
I suppose I could install from the cd iso images, but it is a pain to virtually eject and remount cd iso images during the install :-(
There is a trick where you can perform an installation with just the first CD (and you won't be asked for further CDs) if you do this:
1) do a text-based installation (on the prompt right after booting type: linux text <ENTER>) 2) when it comes to package selection, uncheck all groups but then click on customize packages (to get into package details)..and uncheck all of them.
The previous steps are from my head (specially #2) but just pay attention to the software and what I said and you'll be fine.
You'll get an installation of about 600 to 700 MB and then you can use "yum" to install whatever you need to install.
HTH, Jorge
On 01/14/11 5:36 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
On 01/14/2011 09:29 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
I suppose I could install from the cd iso images, but it is a pain to virtually eject and remount cd iso images during the install :-(
There is a trick where you can perform an installation with just the first CD (and you won't be asked for further CDs) if you do this:
- do a text-based installation (on the prompt right after booting type:
linux text<ENTER>) 2) when it comes to package selection, uncheck all groups but then click on customize packages (to get into package details)..and uncheck all of them.
The previous steps are from my head (specially #2) but just pay attention to the software and what I said and you'll be fine.
You'll get an installation of about 600 to 700 MB and then you can use "yum" to install whatever you need to install.
or, put all the 5.2 CD contents on a local http server, and use http://vault.centos.org/5.2/isos/i386/CentOS-5.2-i386-netinstall.iso (<8MB) to install it.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:36:43PM -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
- do a text-based installation (on the prompt right after booting type:
linux text <ENTER>) 2) when it comes to package selection, uncheck all groups but then click on customize packages (to get into package details)..and uncheck all of them.
Not even necessary to do the text based install--keep in mind that in CentOS 6, thanks to RH feeling Fedora is their development platform, and Fedora being aimed more at the imaginary, somewhat moronic (in the developers' minds) "average user", text installation is crippled.
If using GUI mode, choose customize now--one advantage RH 6 will have is the ability to, in the main selection screen, choose minimal which will do this for you--then, as Jorge says, uncheck everything. Basically uncheck the desktops, go through applications from top to bottom, in servers, I believe it's just print server that they install by default, and then uncheck everything in base as well--go to the bottom, because X server is the last thing listed, so make sure you go through EVERYTHING in base. (You won't have to open options for each thing you uncheck, just unchecking them is sufficient.)
On 01/14/11 5:29 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
Home ISP blocking bittorrent; company now blocks bittorrent.
I want/need an old release (CentOS 5.2) to install as a VirtualBox guest.
I suppose I could install from the cd iso images, but it is a pain to virtually eject and remount cd iso images during the install :-(
So, is there a technique or an open source tool that will create a dvd iso given the cd iso images?
I've seen the DVD ISO files on select mirrors. it can be difficult to reliably transfer a > 4GB file over http/ftp
On 1/14/2011 9:05 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 01/14/11 5:29 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
Home ISP blocking bittorrent; company now blocks bittorrent.
I want/need an old release (CentOS 5.2) to install as a VirtualBox guest.
I suppose I could install from the cd iso images, but it is a pain to virtually eject and remount cd iso images during the install :-(
So, is there a technique or an open source tool that will create a dvd iso given the cd iso images?
I've seen the DVD ISO files on select mirrors. it can be difficult to reliably transfer a> 4GB file over http/ftp
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I routinely do 4 GB plus transfers using https and ftp. Rock solid. One thing i do is the gui install..choose minimal then choose custom. uncheck everything and you'll get a machine with access to a shell and then you can yum everything else. Only need disk 1.
On 01/14/2011 06:17 PM, William Warren wrote:
On 1/14/2011 9:05 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 01/14/11 5:29 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
Home ISP blocking bittorrent; company now blocks bittorrent.
I want/need an old release (CentOS 5.2) to install as a VirtualBox guest.
I suppose I could install from the cd iso images, but it is a pain to virtually eject and remount cd iso images during the install :-(
So, is there a technique or an open source tool that will create a dvd iso given the cd iso images?
I've seen the DVD ISO files on select mirrors. it can be difficult to reliably transfer a> 4GB file over http/ftp
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I routinely do 4 GB plus transfers using https and ftp. Rock solid. One thing i do is the gui install..choose minimal then choose custom. uncheck everything and you'll get a machine with access to a shell and then you can yum everything else. Only need disk 1. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
There's always ncftp which has the ability to resume an interrupted file transfer, though I regularly transfer DVD images with both http and ftp without any errors.
Nataraj
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Nataraj incoming-centos@rjl.com wrote:
There's always ncftp which has the ability to resume an interrupted file transfer, though I regularly transfer DVD images with both http and ftp without any errors.
wget -c will also allow you to download with continue, if the remote server
supports it.
Steve
Nataraj wrote:
There's always ncftp which has the ability to resume an interrupted file transfer, though I regularly transfer DVD images with both http and ftp without any errors.
wget
Mike
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Nataraj wrote:
There's always ncftp which has the ability to resume an interrupted file transfer, though I regularly transfer DVD images with both http and ftp without any errors.
wget
"rsync --partial", baby, "rsync --partial"!!! I find it very handy for mirroring repositories that use hardlinks, or should use hardlinks.
So, is there a technique or an open source tool that will create a dvd iso given the cd iso images?
I've seen the DVD ISO files on select mirrors. it can be difficult to reliably transfer a> 4GB file over http/ftp
I've only had one DVD iso dowload corrupted over http.
I use a fast mirror and d/l overnight with a wget bash script, run by cron.
#! /bin/bash
# the command to download the iso shows in qps as 'wget'
#------------------------------------------------------#
# SITE_URL is the url of the site to download # WAIT_TIME is the time to wait in seconds between downloading files # DOWNLOAD_DIR is the destination for the downloaded files
#------------------------------------------------------#
OS_VERSION="5.5" SITE_URL="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/$OS_VERSION/isos/i386" DOWNLOAD_DIR="/downloads/linux/centos/$OS_VERSION/DVD"
#------------------------------------------------------#
# get the CentOS 5.5 DVD md5sum.txt file.
wget \ -a $DOWNLOAD_DIR/wget.log \ --directory-prefix=$DOWNLOAD_DIR \ $SITE_URL/md5sum.txt
# get the CentOS 5.5 DVD iso file.
wget \ -a $DOWNLOAD_DIR/wget.log \ --directory-prefix=$DOWNLOAD_DIR \ $SITE_URL/CentOS-$OS_VERSION-i386-bin-DVD.iso
#------------------------------------------------------#
exit 0
Always md5sum check the iso is downloaded OK, and if you burn to a DVD+RW disk, you can then reuse that many times.
HTH
Keith Roberts
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Hi,
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 12:37 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:
So, is there a technique or an open source tool that will create a dvd iso given the cd iso images?
I've seen the DVD ISO files on select mirrors. it can be difficult to reliably transfer a> 4GB file over http/ftp
I've only had one DVD iso dowload corrupted over http.
I use a fast mirror and d/l overnight with a wget bash script, run by cron.
I have downloaded hundreds of DVD iso images with wget and curl during the past years. I had maybe one or two that were corrupted in one way or another, mostly because of improperly configured (windows) webservers.
4Gb with HTTP is no problem nowadays, FTP isn't either.
If you have doubts about HTTP/FTP you can always use the Bittorrent way to download (also with commandline tools like btdownloadcurses or similar). It doesn't really matter when you download them although in some cases it can make a difference in speed to download overnight but with most tools you can also specify a maximum bandwith to use.
To be sure an image is ok you can always check the image with the md5/sha1 checksum which is normally found in the same directory as the image on the HTTP/FTP server.
kind regards,
Michel
Or how does one generate the dvd iso given a list of rpm files? (Assuming I had a list of all of the needed rpm files).
It would be nice if one had something like "make centos_5.2_dvd_iso" :-)
Check out this link .. it provides all the information on how to do this. I've not tried this with anything more recent than RHEL 3 .. and the example is with RHEL 4 .. so it may or may not work, but it is headed in the right direction.
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Creating_a_RHEL_bootable_DVD_ISO.html
Barry
Thank you for answering the the question that was asked.
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On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 11:14 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote:
Or how does one generate the dvd iso given a list of rpm files? (Assuming I had a list of all of the needed rpm files).
It would be nice if one had something like "make centos_5.2_dvd_iso" :-)
Check out this link .. it provides all the information on how to do this. I've not tried this with anything more recent than RHEL 3 .. and the example is with RHEL 4 .. so it may or may not work, but it is headed in the right direction.
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Creating_a_RHEL_bootable_DVD_ISO.html
Barry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Jigdo should work. http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11247
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 13:00 -0600, Gene Brandt wrote:
Thank you for answering the the question that was asked.
-- Thanks,
Gene Brandt SCSA 8625 Carriage Road River Ridge, LA 70123 home 504-737-4295 cell 504-452-3250 Family Web Page | My Web Page | LinkedIn | Facebook | Resumebucket
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 11:14 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote:
Or how does one generate the dvd iso given a list of rpm files? (Assuming I had a list of all of the needed rpm files).
It would be nice if one had something like "make centos_5.2_dvd_iso" :-)
Check out this link .. it provides all the information on how to do this. I've not tried this with anything more recent than RHEL 3 .. and the example is with RHEL 4 .. so it may or may not work, but it is headed in the right direction.
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Creating_a_RHEL_bootable_DVD_ISO.html
Barry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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