[TriLUG] Mirroring RedHat 9 -- Net Install FTP/Boot CD issue

[Jeff Bollinger]

Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 10:51, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well, I just tried that and I got this prompt:
>>
>>"Insert your updates disk into /dev/hdc and press 'OK' to continue."
> 
> 
> Hmm, I would assume that /dev/hdc is the CD-ROM drive.  I wonder if you
> can just put the updates.img onto the boot.iso and have it read it this
> way (rather than reading it from the FTP site).  I don't know enough
> about anaconda to know if this is the right approach.
> 
> 
>>I press "OK" and I again get to the "pre-configuration" pages.  After I 
>>enter all the data in there I get this error:
>>
>>"Unable to read header list.  This may be due to a missing file or bad 
>>media.  Press <return> to try again."
>>
>>I tried a couple more times, but it never took...
> 
> 
> Yeah, sounds like it never actually got the updates.
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
> 


So I tried to expand the boot.iso file into a directory:

	$ sudo mount -tiso9660 boot.iso -o loop isolinux/

Then I copied the all the files from that [read-only] directory into 
another directory, where I also copied updates.img:

	$ cp isolinux/* test_boot/; cp updates.img test_boot/; ll

total 3672
-r--r--r--    1 jeff     jeff         2048 Oct 28 13:58 boot.cat
-rw-r--r--    1 jeff     jeff          342 Oct 28 13:58 boot.msg
-rw-r--r--    1 jeff     jeff          957 Oct 28 13:58 general.msg
-rw-r--r--    1 jeff     jeff      2704029 Oct 28 13:58 initrd.img
-r--r--r--    1 jeff     jeff         9400 Oct 28 13:58 isolinux.bin
-r-xr-xr-x    1 jeff     jeff          435 Oct 28 13:58 isolinux.cfg
-rw-r--r--    1 jeff     jeff          730 Oct 28 13:58 options.msg
-rw-r--r--    1 jeff     jeff          869 Oct 28 13:58 param.msg
-rw-r--r--    1 jeff     jeff          531 Oct 28 13:58 rescue.msg
-rw-r--r--    1 jeff     jeff          549 Oct 28 13:58 snake.msg
-rw-r--r--    1 jeff     jeff         5420 Oct 28 13:58 splash.lss
-rw-r--r--    1 jeff     jeff       131072 Oct 28 13:58 updates.img
-rw-r--r--    1 jeff     jeff       855693 Oct 28 13:58 vmlinuz



Next I created an ISO image that I could burn with eroaster:


	$ mkisofs -o test_boot.iso test_boot/

Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 2048
Path table size(bytes): 26
Max brk space used 5444
1872 extents written (3 Mb)

Finally, I tried burning the resulting image (test_boot.iso) to a CD. 
Now I can't get the system to auto-boot to the new CD!!!  Maybe I'm just 
not that familiar with writing an *.iso with eroaster, but I think I'm 
pretty close.  Anyone have other suggestions?  Possibly the best way to 
burn an *.iso?


Thanks!
Jeff