[TriLUG] Mirroring RedHat 9 (bootable ISO)

[Jeff Bollinger]

Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 15:34, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
>>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?
> 
> 
> There are additional steps needed to make a CD bootable.  There is an
> additional portion that is not in the "ISO" format.  Read one of the
> "distribution building" HOWTOs for details, I don't recall at the moment
> how it's done.
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
> 

Not to beat a dead horse, but I thought I'd post this, at least so it 
might make the archive and someone searching for the right flags on the 
web might find it.  Here's how I invoked mkisofs to burn a bootable CD 
using a modified RedHat ISO:

$ mkisofs -o new_iso_name.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot.cat 
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -l -R -r new_iso_folder

I was able to boot from a CD burned with the resulting 
(new_iso_name.iso) image and install from there.  I still haven't been 
able to verify whether the FTP install works or not (I ran out of blank 
CDs!) by trying: 'linux updates' as soon as the host boots.  More work 
needed...why can't/doesn't RedHat just modify their boot.iso image to 
work with FTP installs again??  They haven't jumped off the consumer 
grade RedHat yet have they?

Thanks,
Jeff