Re: help burning a redhat cd

[Werner Kliewer <VKliewer mpi mb ca>]

No, it is not possible to use NFS or "hard disk install" to install off a DOS 
partition. The install is a UNIX process and needs a UNIX environment and UNIX 
file permissions to work.

Also, you cannot create the CD image in DOS/Windows for the same reason. You 
need to be able to put the UNIX CD-ROM extensions in the iso image, and that 
means the UNIX file permissions, symbolic links, etc. must be all intact on in 
the originating file system. Once you have the .iso image file, you can burn 
the CD in DOS/Windows, because it just does a bit-for-bit copy of the .iso 
image file to the CD. This is why people are looking for complete .iso image 
files to download, even though they will be about 600mb.

The one way around this is to use an FTP install. This requires a boot floppy 
and a supplemental floppy. It creates a UNIX environment in memory from the 
supplemental floppy. Then, all you need is the RPMS directory from the 
installation image, and as long as the files were downloaded to DOS in binary 
mode, the permissions no longer matter. I have done an install such as this 
from RPMS on a DOS image.

In article <036301bec387$44b582a0$0b00a8c0 fujiyama>, Sreekumar wrote:
> From: "Sreekumar" <sreekumar cygnus stpp soft net>
> To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Subject: Re: help burning a redhat cd
> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:32:11 +0530
> Reply-To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> 
> Hi,
> I also had the same experience as Koos Werkman. Redhat 6.0 install program
> complained
> as no files found. The install program is not able to recognise the
> directories and files in DOS
> partition. While we do hard disk installation why installation program do
> not recognise the directories in
> dos partition? Is there a way to transfer files from dos partition to linux
> file system during instllation?
> Thanks
> Sreekumar
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A.J. Werkman <werkman worldonline nl>
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Date: Saturday, June 26, 1999 1:15 AM
> Subject: Re: help burning a redhat cd
> 
> 
> >At 23:12 24-06-1999 +0300, you wrote:
> >>Hello All,
> >>I know there is a mini how to on this, but refers to linux and requires
> >>XCDroast which is available only for linux. I haven't installed linux yet,
> >>I have only windows98.I have downloaded redhat 6.0 in my hard drive
> >>and I have Adapter Easy Cd creator. Will this program generate the
> >>trans.tbl file?
> >>I would search the archives but the archive server is not working for some
> >>weeks now. Any help would be appreciated.
> >>George
> >>
> >
> >If you want to install from CD, you will need everything that is under the
> >RedHat directory on your CD. I don't know exactly which long-filename
> >extensions will be accepted by the instal program. But RockRidge will
> >definitly work. So if you can make the iso-image with RockRidge. You need
> >software to create this iso-9660 image with RR. You can use whatever
> >software you have available to burn the image to a disk. Installing from CD
> >also needs the boot.img file written on a floppy, use rawrite under win98
> >to create this.
> >
> >If you will install linux on the same harddisk as where your win98
> >partition is, you should be able to install directly of the harddisk, you
> >only need to make the bootdisk. Only when I tried to install rh60 from a
> >harddisk the install program complained about severel file that it could
> >not find and dependencies of installation routine's that where broken. So
> >the harddisk install failed.
> >Maybe someone else can fill in where I went wrong with this.
> >
> >Hope it helps,
> >Koos Werkman.
> >
> >
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