I've found discussion about this in list archives, but no final answers. Many helpfull people wrote in the past how to avoid creating DVD (install from network, install from disk, boot this way, boot that way). But, I do need DVD, no way around it. No network, no USB, no floppy, no anything. Placing files on hard drive not an option. Just a DVD-ROM.
By Googling around, I found some pointers how to do it for Red Hat 8/9 and Fedora Core. Basically, something along the lines:
mkisofs -o centos-dvd.iso -V 'CentOS 4.0' \ -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \ -r -J -T .
I am able to boot from this DVD image, however Anaconda does not recognize it as CentOS installation CD/DVD. I guess it is either checking volume label or .diskinfo file (or whatever it is called). Could somebody please save me from downloading 2+ GB DVD image containing files I already have (which I probably couldn't do anyhow, I probably can't use torrent, unless it is using port 80 (?), and there's no DVD image on CentOS download site).
On Tue, April 5, 2005 2:01 pm, Aleksandar Milivojevic said:
I've found discussion about this in list archives, but no final answers. Many helpfull people wrote in the past how to avoid creating DVD (install from network, install from disk, boot this way, boot that way). But, I do need DVD, no way around it. No network, no USB, no floppy, no anything. Placing files on hard drive not an option. Just a DVD-ROM.
By Googling around, I found some pointers how to do it for Red Hat 8/9 and Fedora Core. Basically, something along the lines:
mkisofs -o centos-dvd.iso -V 'CentOS 4.0' \ -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \ -r -J -T .
I am able to boot from this DVD image, however Anaconda does not recognize it as CentOS installation CD/DVD. I guess it is either checking volume label or .diskinfo file (or whatever it is called). Could somebody please save me from downloading 2+ GB DVD image containing files I already have (which I probably couldn't do anyhow, I probably can't use torrent, unless it is using port 80 (?), and there's no DVD image on CentOS download site).
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put the .discinfo file from CD-1 in the main directory ... then edit it and make it look like this:
1109642504.647574 CentOS 4.0 i386 1,2,3,4 CentOS/base CentOS/RPMS CentOS/pixmaps
(the 1109642504.647574 and the i386 both may be different ... depending on your distro)
also ... if the distro has more or less discs on it, change the 1,2,3,4 to 1,2,3,4,5 ... etc.
This file goes in the main directory ...
Johnny Hughes wrote:
put the .discinfo file from CD-1 in the main directory ... then edit it and make it look like this:
1109642504.647574 CentOS 4.0 i386 1,2,3,4 CentOS/base CentOS/RPMS CentOS/pixmaps
(the 1109642504.647574 and the i386 both may be different ... depending on your distro)
also ... if the distro has more or less discs on it, change the 1,2,3,4 to 1,2,3,4,5 ... etc.
Thanks for sending this info to me. I did exactly as described, and Anaconda recognized DVD as installation media. However, it still believes that it is the first CD, and prompts me for CD 2 during the install. I've changed the "1,2,3,4" line to read "1". I guess there are some more files than need to be updated/rebuilt? Probably something telling Anaconda on which CD is which package?
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 16:39 -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
put the .discinfo file from CD-1 in the main directory ... then edit it and make it look like this:
1109642504.647574 CentOS 4.0 i386 1,2,3,4 CentOS/base CentOS/RPMS CentOS/pixmaps
(the 1109642504.647574 and the i386 both may be different ... depending on your distro)
also ... if the distro has more or less discs on it, change the 1,2,3,4 to 1,2,3,4,5 ... etc.
Thanks for sending this info to me. I did exactly as described, and Anaconda recognized DVD as installation media. However, it still believes that it is the first CD, and prompts me for CD 2 during the install. I've changed the "1,2,3,4" line to read "1". I guess there are some more files than need to be updated/rebuilt? Probably something telling Anaconda on which CD is which package?
did you try it with 1,2,3,4 or just with 1
it should work with 1,2,3,4 ... it won;t work with just 1
Quoting Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 17:07:39
did you try it with 1,2,3,4 or just with 1
it should work with 1,2,3,4 ... it won;t work with just 1
Oh, I see where my error was. I tried with only "1". I will rebuild the image with "1,2,3,4" when I get back to work tomorrow. Thank you for clarifying this to me.
YOu know you can download a dvd iso via bit torrent right?
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
I've found discussion about this in list archives, but no final answers. Many helpfull people wrote in the past how to avoid creating DVD (install from network, install from disk, boot this way, boot that way). But, I do need DVD, no way around it. No network, no USB, no floppy, no anything. Placing files on hard drive not an option. Just a DVD-ROM.
By Googling around, I found some pointers how to do it for Red Hat 8/9 and Fedora Core. Basically, something along the lines:
mkisofs -o centos-dvd.iso -V 'CentOS 4.0' \ -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \ -r -J -T .
I am able to boot from this DVD image, however Anaconda does not recognize it as CentOS installation CD/DVD. I guess it is either checking volume label or .diskinfo file (or whatever it is called). Could somebody please save me from downloading 2+ GB DVD image containing files I already have (which I probably couldn't do anyhow, I probably can't use torrent, unless it is using port 80 (?), and there's no DVD image on CentOS download site).
William Warren wrote:
YOu know you can download a dvd iso via bit torrent right?
No, I can not use torrent. I'm behind firewall. No, the firewall in question is not my basement firewall I can play with whatever way I see fit. It is a company firewall and we have very strict policy about changing firewall rules. Nope, I don't have DVD burner at home :-(
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 19:01, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
I've found discussion about this in list archives, but no final answers. Many helpfull people wrote in the past how to avoid creating DVD (install from network, install from disk, boot this way, boot that way). But, I do need DVD, no way around it. No network, no USB, no floppy, no anything. Placing files on hard drive not an option. Just a DVD-ROM.
I used the four CD ISO's and ftp://people.redhat.com/ckloiber/mkdvdiso.sh to make my working DVD.
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