On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Steven J Mackenzie wrote:
> "Thomas J. Hamman" wrote:
> > Well, I wasn't planning on making one just yet, since I want to be fairly sure
> > that most of the bugs have been fixed before I start burning stuff onto a CD.
>
> If you want to burn an updated cd, the Mandrake FAQ has a link to a site
> that describes what you need to do. (Although it makes it sound more
> complicated than it really is!) Briefly:
>
> Download the updates (it's useful to keep a mirror of the updates directory,
> and use wget to keep it up to date).
> Delete the old files from the ./Mandrake/RPMS directory.
> Copy the updates into the ./Mandrake/RPMS directory.
> Go to the root directory of your distribution (the directory with Mandrake,
> misc, docs, ...), and run './misc/src/install/genhdlst .'
> (If you have never made a cd from the distribution before, go to the
> ./Mandrake/instimage directory and 'chmod -R 770 *' everything, just in case
> tthe execute permission got lost when the distribution was mirrored.)
>
> Then use mkisofs with the -r option to make a new iso image. Read the man
> page if you've not used mkisofs before. (Or the FAQ, or
> http://www.man.ac.uk/LinuxDoc/HOWTO/mini/RedHat-CD-6.html)
>
> Good luck.
> Steven
Thanks for the info, Steven, I'll refer to this when I'm ready to burn my CD. :)
-Tom
