Re: Make Linux CDs

[Tony Nugent <Tony Nugent usq edu au>]

On Thu Oct 01 1998 00:00, "George Lenzer" wrote:

> Sorry, but I haven't been following this thread until now...  I was able to
> burn a RedHat 5.1 BOOTABLE CD-ROM under Windows NT using Goldenhawk CDRWIN.
> I created a iso9660 file on my Linux machine and transferred everything over
> the network using SAMBA to my WINNT machine with the CD-R in it.  then I

Ahh, that was the crux of the original post and the main point of my reply.

:-)

(The original questioner was asking why  is wasn't possible to create a
workable RedHat cdrom image from files ftp'ed from sunsite onto a windoze
box).

The install image needs to be set up correctly, then the image created -
and it need to be done on a linux box.

I'd be suprised if Easy-CD-Writer can't simply be given a prepared image
file and gracefully burn it onto a cdrom.

> just pointed CDRWIN to the iso9660 file and proceeded to burn...  Worked
> beautifully.  It seems the important stuff needs to be done on the *nix side
> before creating the iso9660 image:
> 
> 1. Make sure all the perms are correct on files and directories.
> 2. Make sure your 'hdlist' file is updated if you added RPM updates.

Yep, exactly.

> 3. Make sure your RPM directory doesn't have any subdirectories, non-RPM or
> corrupt RPM files in it before updating your 'hdlist' with 'genhdlist'.

Step 2 is not possible if this isn't right.  Hehe... I got caught with
genhdlist dumping a core file in the RPMS directory, and it kept doing that
even after I tracked down and fixed the offending i386.rpm.  Took me ages
to realise that there was a core file in there that was causing all the
subsequent problems!  :-)

> Once these conditions are satisfied, create and test your iso9660 image,
> then you can move it to any platform that will burn from an iso image.

I would add:

 4. Make sure that the RedHat/instimage/ subdirectories (with the "live"
    filesystem" is set up correctly with no corrupt files and valid
    symlinks etc.  (Been caught with this one too).

> My $.02 worth,

... and a most valuable contribution too  :-(*)

Cheers
Tony