Creating 1 DVD from 3 red hat linux 9 cd's

[Robert]

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> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:41 AM, girish <girish at ismbangalore.com> wrote:
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>>  I am trying to create one bootable dvd from 3 red hat linux 9 cd's. I have
>>  got some article how to create dvd.  Problem is iam getting confused of some
>>  commands when creating the dvd. The commands are as follows:
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>>   Mount the ISO images using a loop device mount:
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>>  mount -o ro,loop .../Shrike-i386-disc1.iso Shrike-i386-disc1
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>>  mount -o ro,loop .../Shrike-i386-disc2.iso Shrike-i386-disc2
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>>  mount -o ro,loop .../Shrike-i386-disc3.iso Shrike-i386-disc3
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>>  mount -o ro,loop .../Shrike-SRPMS-disc1.iso Shrike-i386-disc4
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>>  mount -o ro,loop .../Shrike-SRPMS-disc2.iso Shrike-i386-disc5
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>>  mount -o ro,loop .../Shrike-SRPMS-disc3.iso Shrike-i386-disc6
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>>  # Replace ... with the path to your ISO imagesftp://people.redhat.com/ckloiber/mkdvdiso.sh
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>>  In this last line it is showing REPLACE . WITH THE PATH TO YOUR ISO IMAGES.
>>  Can anyone tell where the isomages are located. Whether it is in the cd's .
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>>  Thanking you in advance
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>>  Girish
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>>  System Administrator
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nilesh vaghela wrote:
 > you can create you own iso image from the cd.
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 > CD image is called iso image.
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 > There are no iso image of cd in cd. (exception is boo.iso in first cd 
/images )
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 > insert you cd in cd drive and check which the device for your cddrive
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 > ls -l /dev/ | grep -i cdrom
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 > the give following command
 > dd if=/dev/cddrive_device of=disk1.iso bs=1024
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 > will create disk1.iso
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 > repeat same thing with all disk.
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To achieve to objective of the OP, once the diskn.iso files have been 
created, download ftp://people.redhat.com/ckloiber/mkdvdiso.sh and and 
run the script.  This takes care of all the messy loop mounting and 
hopefully eliminates the confusion. End result is a ready-to-burn DVD 
iso file.