Building an install CDROM wih ignite

[sebastien_3]

Hi all !

does anyone have experienced building an install cdrom as describe in ignite adm guide ?
I have troubles : I do succeed to create an image (many wrong indications in the doc !! bad quality system;-) ), but how to copy this image on a cdrom ?
I ve tried but it's just like a file and when I reboot on the CD path i get No valid LIF....

Help will be welcome !

[Wodisch]

Hi,

IIRC then the whole trick was to use a 2048 byte/block file system!
And my "Nero" is burning that image just fine (Adaptec Easy CD does not, though)...

FWIW,
Wodisch

[T G Manikandan]

check this document

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000057441818

[RAC_1]

2 MB block size you have missed when doing dd.

[Steven E. Protter]

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xb3cc0bce6f33d6118fff0090279cd0f9,00.html

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/faq.html

Question 7 on the above doc.

The answer to that is make_medialif. make_medialif creates a bootable LIF image. This image can be copied to either a DDS tape or a writable CD to create an Ignite-UX install media normally, but in your case you could use it to include your executable. You will need to install the ignite software to access it.

To create a boot LIF image using the config file
/home/root/myconfig and placing it in
/home/root/uxinstlf.

make_medialif -f /home/root/myconfig -l /home/root/uxinstlf

Then using a CD writing utility, transfer
/home/root/uxinstlf to a writable CD in raw mode. The resulting CD will be bootable.
The image can be transferred to a raw disk and a system booted from that disk to test out the image before committing it to CD.

See the man page for more details.

I didn't write any of this.

P-man