Making a Kick Start CD (Enterprise Linux ES 3)

Taylor, ForrestX forrestx.taylor at intel.com
Thu Mar 4 18:30:41 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 10:14, Mac McClellan wrote:
> OK, I'm getting closer...
> 
> I fixed the problem of 'where to run the program'.  Here's what I'm
> using:
> 
> mkisofs -o /root/new.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat
> -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J -v -T -V "RHEL/3
> i386" -A "RHEL/3 i386" /root/isofilesys/
> 
> I am able to create the iso image but something else is wrong.  
> 
> The CD boots and the installation kernel is loaded.  Then I get an
> error message:
> 
> "The Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD was not found in any of your CDROM
> drives. Please insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD and press OK to
> retry."

You forgot the .discinfo file.  Copy that from the original CD to
/root/isofilesys/.

Forrest





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