Fitting RH on one CD?

Benjamin J. Weiss benjamin at Weiss.name
Fri Dec 10 13:50:22 UTC 2004


On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, 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.
> 

Yep, there's good notes somewhere in the archives.  The basic idea is to 
copy all of the files to one directory tree, modify the .discinfo file to 
include the disc information on all the discs you're putting into one.  
Then you burn a bootable disk.

Sorry if that doesn't make much sense, I'm minus several hours on sleep. 
:)

Seriously, do a search, you'll find the notes.  It's not that hard, I've 
made a few dvd's myself.

Ben




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