topic Re: LInux Installation CD in Operating System - Linux

LInux Installation CD

Pando — Tue, 08 May 2007 02:07:01 GMT

Dear Gurus,

Is it possible to combine the 5 LINUX CD intallation into 1 CD? The CD's are not iso image. Thanks!

Re: LInux Installation CD

Alexander Chuzhoy — Tue, 08 May 2007 02:52:36 GMT

Usually the distribution can be downloaded as single DVD iso image.

5 linux CD will obviously exceed the size of 1 CD.

Re: LInux Installation CD

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 08 May 2007 03:31:21 GMT

Shalom,

single DVD?

Thats not supported. RH releases FC 6 in DVD form, so its theoretically possible.

You may have to work with the source and build the ISO yourself.

Got nothing better to do? Go for it.

The first Cd of the install set can be used to connect to an NFS server for installation, negating the need for the other cd's. I rarely bother to produce actual cd's for anything other than the first cd.

SEP

Re: LInux Installation CD

Court Campbell — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:46:03 GMT

What distribution is on the CD's. As mentioned there may already be a DVD ISO available.

Re: LInux Installation CD

Colin Topliss — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:13:02 GMT

With Suse I think you'll find its easy.
Copy all your CDs into one directory, then make an ISO image.

With RedHat, its a little different. Copy all the CDs into one dir. Then you need to edit .discinfo and change the line where it says

1

to

1,2,3,4,5

eg mine looks like this:

1154571873.955774
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
x86_64
1,2,3,4,5
RedHat/base
RedHat/RPMS
RedHat/pixmaps

then make your ISO image. Don't forget that you'll need to burn this to a DVD - it won't all fit on a CD.

This link covers it nicely:

http://linux.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/redhat-l/how-can-i-make-rhel50-dvd-bootable-1132579#

Colin.