Hi Graham:
Thanks for your detailed overview on how to burn a Red Hat CD. I have a
few questions that I was hoping you could help me out with.
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Graham Hemmings wrote:
> 1) Retrieve RH5.1 from RedHat's site (or any mirror).
> 2) Retrieve all updated RPMs from RedHat's FTP Site.
> 3) Replace the old RPMs with the updated RPMs.
> 4) Before proceeding to step 5, make absolutely sure that everything
> is where it should be and pay particular attention to the Case of
> directory names (Windows may have screwed these up for you).
> 5) You now need to create a new hdlist file so that the installation
> routine will use the new RPMs.
Check.
> 6) The next thing to do is create an ISO image, you can then burn
> this image onto a CD using your favourite platform - or even
> Windows ;) To do this enter the following as one line:
>
> mkisofs -b misc/boot/autoboot.img -c misc/boot/boot.catalog -a
> -A "RedHat Linux 5.0 with Patches to 06/02/98" -d -L
> -o /temp/RH5.iso -P "Publisher ID" -p "Preparer ID" -r -T
> -N /temp/rh5
I don't have this command. Is this part of some Linux-based CD writer
kit? I was just planning on borrowing a friend's Win95 burner and using
standard Win95 drivers to burn the CD.
> 7) You should now have an ISO image that you can burn to CD. If you
> want to check that the image is OK and you have compiled loopback
> file system support into your kernel, then you can actually mount
> this image as a file system and have a look through it!
>
> mount -t iso9660 -o loop /temp/rh5/RH5.iso /mnt/test
Is there a reason you can't just mount the cd as an ISO9660 image?
ie. mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom -t iso9660
> Note that this CD will be written with Rockridge Extensions, so
> long filenames will only be readable on platforms that support them.
This worries me -- since the standard CD's from the vendors can be read
with Windows (standard ISO9660), isn't there a way to do the same thing
for home-burned versions?
Thanks again.
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