Homebrew Severn ISOs

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at redhat.com
Thu Sep 25 04:57:35 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:59, David W Aquilina wrote:
> Greetings all,
>                                                                                 
> I'm attempting to create some custom Severn ISOs (mainly to include a
> kickstart file and such) however I'm running into some problems that I
> never saw when doing the same with RHL 9.0.
>                                                                                 
> The CD created from the custom ISO boots without a problem, however the
> installer complains that "The Red Hat Linux CD was not found in any of
> your CDROM drives".
>                                                                                 
> I created the CD by copying the contents of the first Severn CD to a
> directory, making my modifications, and then creating the ISO via this
> command:
>                                                                                 
>  "mkisofs -r -T -J -V "Custom Severn Disk 1 of 3" -b images/bootdisk.img
> -o CustomSevern1.iso /CD1"
> (/CD1 being the path to the directory)
>                                                                                 
> This process worked just fine for Shrike (Red Hat Linux 9).
> 
> Any thoughts?

Look for .discinfo in the root dir of the cd's. Not sure how you would
make a custom valid one without letting anaconda make it somehow. Also
it seems you aren't using the /isolinux boot method. That could make it
hard to boot with certain hardware.

-- 
Chris Kloiber
Red Hat, Inc.






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