[Centos] How to create a CD/DVD

Thu Feb 24 10:59:24 UTC 2005
Karanbir Singh <Mail-Lists at karan.org>

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-begininstall-http.html
> 

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

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