On Fri Apr 27 2001 at 11:20, Osazemoya Uhumuavbi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please can someone tell me how to burn redHat linux 7.1 CD in a windows 2000
> enviroment. I have a problem burning the CD. I have a 650MB capacity CD-R
> and I do not know which of the rpm packages to take out since the whole i386
> folder is much larger than 650MB capacity CD-R. I have downloaded
> successfully the redhat 7.1 /i386 and power tools. The capacity of the i386
> folder is 1.02GB. Is there a format for taking out the rpm packages that
> would not be useful during the initial installation of linux and if there is
> can I know the format.
There are one or more HOWTOs that covers all this. However, I'm
not sure if they cover the multi-disk arrangement now needed for
redhat 7.x. You should be able to find more information with a
web search engine.
If you are attempting to re-create the ISO installation images
themselves from an install tree on a FAT32 filesystem, then you are
p***ing in the wind.
Yes, you need to divide the RedHat/RPMS/ directory over two CDROM
images. Get the file listings from the installation ISOs to see how
redhat has it all layed out. And read the README.
But even when you do that, it won't work:
- All the stuff in RedHat/instimage/* (on the second installation
disk image) needs to be visible to the installer as an ext2
filesystem. But since it contains symbolic links and other such
unix-specific things, this cannot be done on a FAT filesystem.
Unix file permissions and ownership also do not exist on FAT.
What could _possibly_ work is that everything has executable modes
(the default for linux looking at vfat), and all symbolic links
are converted to full copies of the files they point to. But this
will tend to blow out the size of the iso image.
- You'll need to run genhdlist on the final image trees to re-create
RedHat/base/hdlist from the actual contents the two RedHat/RPMS/*
directories -- you cannot do that with windows.
- You'll need to specify images/boot.img as the boot image on the
first iso image (which should be possible to do with windows tools).
- And various other problems you'll need to overcome.
Preparing redhat installation iso images under windows on a FAT
filesystem is a major hassle.
My advice is to prepare and create the actual ISO images on a linux
box with mkisofs (it does an excellent job!), then transfer the
final image to your windows box and burn it from there. (Or better
still, put the burner on your linux box and use cdrecord to burn
it... it also does a good job).
Cheers
Tony
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LinuxWorks - Gold Coast Qld Australia
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