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Re: RHEL 4 WS/AS/ES DVD creation script

From: John Reiser

To: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant) Discussion List"

Subject: Re: RHEL 4 WS/AS/ES DVD creation script

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:16:24 -0800

I am using the script here: http://mirror.poundhost.com/mirror.caosity.org/centos/build/mkdvdiso.sh and it runs without errors.

I found a better script a few months ago: "How to make your own RedHat 8.0 DVD from the CD ISO images" but it has disappeared from the where I obtained it: http://www.rickertweb.com/~justin/Make_RedHat_DVD_From_CDROM.html Perhaps a web search will reveal other copies.

The script is better because it requires only about 4.5MB disk space more than the sources, instead of another complete copy (> 2GB) of all files.

Here is what I did; edit as appropriate:

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mount -o ro,loop RHEL4-i386-WS-disc1.iso /mnt/tmp1 # etc. for discs 2,3,4

cp -a /mnt/tmp1/isolinux /mnt/tmp1/.discinfo .

chmod +w isolinux/isolinux.bin

{Edit ./.discinfo file to list four CDs "1,2,3,4" instead of just "1"}

mkisofs -v -pad -o RHEL4-i386-DVD.iso \

-V "RHEL4-i386-DVD.2005-02-16" \

-b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \

-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \

-r -R -T -m TRANS.TBL \

-x /mnt/tmp1/.discinfo \

-x /mnt/tmp1/isolinux \

-graft-points /mnt/tmp1 .discinfo=.discinfo isolinux/=isolinux \

RedHat=/mnt/tmp2/RedHat \

RedHat=/mnt/tmp3/RedHat \

RedHat=/mnt/tmp4/RedHat

/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/implantisomd5 RHEL4-i386-DVD.iso

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I successfully installed using the created DVD.