On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 16:44, James Ralston wrote: > Has Red Hat made a decision as to whether the next releases of RHEL > and RHLP will be made available as DVD ISO images (in addition to the > standard multiple-disc CD ISO images)? > > DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW burners are getting pretty inexpensive > nowadays. If I had a reason to expect that the next RHEL/RHLP > releases would be available as DVD ISO images, I'd go evaluate some > burners... > > Thanks, I have such a burner here, and I gotta say it's ridiculously easy to make your own bootable ISO (with working "mediacheck" function) from any exploded tree. The only gotcha is the .discinfo file in the root of the tree. Copy the .diskinfo from the first CD, and append the extra binary CD numbers so it looks like (This one is for Severn): 1058542020.359904 Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 i386 1,2,3 RedHat/base RedHat/RPMS RedHat/pixmaps I have even written a script that does the right thing for me (it's small, so I'm attaching it). It requires the anaconda-runtime package be installed (for the implantisomd5) It currently copies the source tree to /tmp/mkrhdvd (because you need write permissions in the source tree to make a bootable DVD, and I don't want to/can't write in the actual source tree) then makes the iso in the directory you choose, calculates and implants the md5sum for the mediacheck option, then deletes the /tmp/mkrhdvd tree. Burning is a separate step involving growisofs. Syntax is: mkrhdvd <source_path> </path/to/iso_filename> -- Chris Kloiber Red Hat, Inc.
#!/bin/bash SOURCE=$1 DESTINATION=$2 TEMPDIR=/tmp/mkrhdvd if [ !$(ls -d $SOURCE | grep RedHat | wc -l) ]; then echo ; echo "WARNING: Source directory: "$SOURCE ; echo "does not contain a Red Hat Linux Distribution! Aborting!" ; echo ; exit 1 fi mkdir -p $TEMPDIR cp -auv $SOURCE/.discinfo $TEMPDIR cp -avu $SOURCE/* $TEMPDIR rm -f $TEMPDIR/isolinux/boot.cat BIGDISTRO=$( grep "Red Hat" $TEMPDIR/.discinfo ) DISTRO=$( echo $BIGDISTRO | sed -e 's/Red Hat /RH/' -e 's/Enterprise /E/' -e 's/Linux /L /' ) mkisofs -A "$DISTRO i386" -V "$DISTRO i386" -J -R -v -T -x ./lost+found -o $DESTINATION -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table $TEMPDIR rm -rf $TEMPDIR /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/implantisomd5 --supported $DESTINATION
