[ILUG] Install CD/DVD Manipulation

[Kenn Humborg]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:33:07PM -0000, HAMILTON,DAVID (HP-Ireland,ex2) wrote:
> And while we're on the topic, does anyone know how easy it would be to take
> the 5 RedHat Install CDs, or any other distro for that matter, and make an
> install DVD from them?  I have a DVD-Writer, and would love to cut down the
> amount of disks I end up carrying around with me.

Given that the instructions for NFS, HTTP, FTP or from-hard-disk installations
say "copy all CDs into one tree", then it would probably work for a single DVD
as well:

   mkdir /var/tmp/rh-dvd

   # insert CD 1
   mount /mnt/cdrom
   cp -a /mnt/cdrom/* /var/tmp/rh-dvd
   eject /mnt/cdrom

   # insert CD 2
   mount /mnt/cdrom
   cp -a /mnt/cdrom/* /var/tmp/rh-dvd
   eject /mnt/cdrom

   ... repeat for each CD ...

There is a .disc{1,2,3,4,5}-i386 file on the root of each CD, so if each
of these lives in /var/tmp/rh-dvd, the installer shouldn't be asking you
to swap disks.

Now, the next step is to make the DVD bootable.

Later,
Kenn