[5533] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Burning a CD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Thu Nov 21 22:21:14 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:17:56 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199611212244.AA13013@gateway.kraft.com> from "Carpenter, Dean \" at Nov 21, 96 04:37:45 pm
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Carpenter, Dean \ wrote:
>
> If I want to burn a cd for installs, what in the tree needs to be in the
> root of the CD ? I haven't had a chance to try the cdrom install
> process yet, so I don't know if you can specify where to look, or if the
> install wants certain things to be in certain places.
>
> I would like to include a lot of the contrib stuff etc, so I was
> planning on it looking a bit like this : (about 620meg).
>
> / -> contrib
> | |
> | -> misc
> | -> readmes
> | -> RPMS
> |
> -> redhat
> |
> -> Normal contents of redhat hierarchy sans SRPMS.
>
> I've also merged in all the updates and run genhdlist. By the way,
> doing this I found that the Xconfigurator rpm was bad, both on
> ftp.eit.com and ftp.redhat.com. I was able to copy a clean one from
> another mirror I had made last week sometime.
The 'RedHat' directory needs to be at the root of the CD.
Unfortunately, this kinda confuses the layout a bit, since it's not
the top of anything... in fact I think it's redhat-4.0/RedHat, which
is the same level as SRMPS and updates.
In any case, I ended up having RedHat and redhat-4.0 at the root of
the CD, along with some other stuff (hurd, and so on... plenty of
space).
Be sure you have the permisions on the CD correct before burning
it... mine's really werid, so that only root can read anything on it.
Also, somehow the permissions caused the install program to not be
able to read it, either. Argh. Luckilly I had just plenty of disk
space... be prepared for the necessity.
Good luck.
--
-Otto
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