Fitting RH on one CD?

[Pete Nesbitt]

On December 9, 2004 05:25 pm, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 05:35:37PM -0700, Patrick Campbell wrote:
> > When I install RedHat according to company procedures, I get asked to
> > insert DISC2 and then it installs 3 packages, Perl-CGI, lynx and pine. 
> > Can I hack open the ISO, copy the RPMs into the RPMS dir of disc 1,
> > recreate the ISO and burn a new CD and it won't prompt me for the 2nd CD?
> >  Or does RedHat know which RPMs are on disc1, disc2, disc3, etc. This is
> > part of my attempt to get a fully automated install going.
>
> It can be done and if you search the archives on how to build a DVD ISO
> I expect you'll get yourself headed in the right direction.
>
> If you have a bunch of these to do, I'd suggest setting up a kickstart
> server and doing the installs over the network.  Sure beats swapping
> CDs.  I even did my home FC3 install over the network using my RHEL
> system to hold the ISOs.  It was surprisingly fast.
>
> --
> Ed Wilts, RHCE
> Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
> Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program


ya, I have not burned an install cd in a couple years, the nfs based install 
uses the downloaded iso images as is! 
...also mount's loopback option mounts iso imagesso you can get the floppy 
images.
-- 
Pete Nesbitt, rhce