I might have missed it, but I don't think anyone asked yet - will there be a DVD image of FC5T1? Or just CDs? I have a pack of 100 blank DVDs and no CDs, so if there will only be CDs, is there an easy way to remaster them onto a single DVD?
Thanks,
Chris Kurecka
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 11:10 -0500, Chris Kurecka wrote:
I might have missed it, but I don't think anyone asked yet - will there be a DVD image of FC5T1? Or just CDs? I have a pack of 100 blank DVDs and no CDs, so if there will only be CDs, is there an easy way to remaster them onto a single DVD?
Unfortunately, the support for DVDs just didn't get finished up in time with the changes both to anaconda and the infrastructure we use for creating trees. Given the decision point of pushing things out even longer or just doing test1 without a DVD, we went with a DVD-less test1. test2 will have DVDs back and better than ever :)
FWIW -- you can burn each CD to a separate DVD-R without problems
Jeremy
Is there an easy way to remaster them onto a single DVD?
If you insist on total automation, then there are resource-intensive scripts available in the archives. Some of the most-used scripts take [at least] twice as much time and diskspace as necessary: 6GB free disk space to remaster, and all the data has to move in and out at least TWICE. At 30MB/sec on typical IDE drives, that's many minutes of shuffling in addition to the final DVD writing. The main defect is not utilizing the -graft-points feature of mkisofs.
If you're willing to tweak a few things by hand, then it can be done in only 5MB of space, using only the minimum data transfer: once in, once out.
Here's one example. Modify as needed; in particular: s/RedHat/Fedora/ . If you don't need the ability to run mediacheck on the result, then you don't need the implantisomd5, and you can use 'growisofs' to write directly to the DVD (instead of 'mkisofs' writing to temporary disk space.) [RHEL4-i386-WS, both binary and source, did fit on one DVD. FC5 may require a separate DVD for binary and for source.] ----- mount -o ro,loop RHEL4-i386-WS-disc1.iso /mnt/bin1 mount -o ro,loop RHEL4-i386-WS-disc2.iso /mnt/bin2 mount -o ro,loop RHEL4-i386-WS-disc3.iso /mnt/bin3 mount -o ro,loop RHEL4-i386-WS-disc4.iso /mnt/bin4
mount -o ro,loop RHEL4-i386-source-disc1.iso /mnt/src1 mount -o ro,loop RHEL4-i386-source-disc2.iso /mnt/src2 mount -o ro,loop RHEL4-i386-source-disc3.iso /mnt/src3 mount -o ro,loop RHEL4-i386-source-disc4.iso /mnt/src4
cp -a /mnt/tmp1/isolinux /mnt/tmp1/.discinfo .
chmod +w isolinux/isolinux.bin
{Edit ./.discinfo file to list four CDs "1,2,3,4" instead of just "1"}
mkisofs -v -o RHEL4-i386-WS-DVD.iso \ -V "RHEL4-i386-WS-DVD.2005-02-19" \ -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \ -r -R -T -m TRANS.TBL \ -x /mnt/tmp1/.discinfo \ -x /mnt/tmp1/isolinux \ -graft-points /mnt/bin1 .discinfo=.discinfo isolinux/=isolinux \ RedHat=/mnt/bin2/RedHat \ RedHat=/mnt/bin3/RedHat \ RedHat=/mnt/bin4/RedHat \ SRPMS/=/mnt/src1/SRPMS \ SRPMS=/mnt/src2/SRPMS \ SRPMS=/mnt/src3/SRPMS \ SRPMS=/mnt/src4/SRPMS
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/implantisomd5 RHEL4-i386-WS-DVD.iso -----
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 08:44 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
Is there an easy way to remaster them onto a single DVD?
If you insist on total automation, then there are resource-intensive scripts available in the archives. Some of the most-used scripts take [at least] twice as much time and diskspace as necessary: 6GB free disk space to remaster, and all the data has to move in and out at least TWICE. At 30MB/sec on typical IDE drives, that's many minutes of shuffling in addition to the final DVD writing. The main defect is not utilizing the -graft-points feature of mkisofs.
The dvd scripts won't work as anaconda won't work with the DVD. Wait for test2 for dvd testing.
Paul
Paul Nasrat wrote:
The dvd scripts won't work as anaconda won't work with the DVD. Wait for test2 for dvd testing.
On a similar theme, will their be a rescue.iso as well as the boot.iso in later tests and/or the final FC5?
Obviously the boot.iso *can* function as a rescue CD (given a functioning network connection) but it it a bit painful waiting for stage2.img to download over and over again when in a fix/reboot/test loop, not to mention a waste of bandwidth ...
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 17:52 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
Paul Nasrat wrote:
The dvd scripts won't work as anaconda won't work with the DVD. Wait for test2 for dvd testing.
On a similar theme, will their be a rescue.iso as well as the boot.iso in later tests and/or the final FC5?
Yeah, just haven't gotten to fixing that bit yet
Jeremy
Thanks everyone for the prompt responses. I'd rather not wait another month to try it out, so maybe I'll try to get some CDs from a friend :)
Chris
On 11/23/05, Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 17:52 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
Paul Nasrat wrote:
The dvd scripts won't work as anaconda won't work with the DVD. Wait for test2 for dvd testing.
On a similar theme, will their be a rescue.iso as well as the boot.iso in later tests and/or the final FC5?
Yeah, just haven't gotten to fixing that bit yet
Jeremy
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Chris Kurecka wrote:
I might have missed it, but I don't think anyone asked yet - will there be a DVD image of FC5T1? Or just CDs? I have a pack of 100 blank DVDs and no CDs, so if there will only be CDs, is there an easy way to remaster them onto a single DVD?
Thanks,
Chris Kurecka
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