On Thursday 12 October 2006 10:17, stuart bell wrote: > Hi, > I still can't make a boot cd from the dvd. When i try, this is what > happens. Can any one explain what to do (simply!) > Thanks > Stuart > ssword: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] stuart]# sh /mnt/cdrom/Distros/PCLinuxOS/mkiso > Creating pcl.iso > /mnt/cdrom/Distros/PCLinuxOS/mkiso: line 42: > ../../Essentials/Jigdo/jigdo-file: Permission denied > ISO image written to /home/stuart//pcl.iso > > Verifying MD5 checksums... > md5sum: pcl.iso: No such file or directory > pcl.iso: FAILED open or read > md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 listed file could not be read > Verification failed, or you do not have the md5sum program installed. > In the latter case, you probably have nothing to worry about. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] stuart]# cd /home/stuart//pcl.iso > bash: cd: /home/stuart//pcl.iso: No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED] stuart]#
Not quite sure what youre trying to do, install Mandriva or PCLinuxOS? The latter is a live-CD install whereas Mandy could do an install over a network where you connect to a running box that does have a DVD player. A while ago Dani Zubelbuehler posted on expert how he made a modified network install: Here's his text: *************************************quote******* Woohoo! I've managed to start the installer from ftp after booting with a modified network.img! This is what I did: make an empty disk image with 'dd if=/dev/zero of=bootdisk.img bs=1k count=2880' format the disk with 'mkfs -t msdos bootdisk.img' make it bootable with 'syslinux -s bootdisk.img' mount it to /tmp/bootdisk mount the network.img and copy it's contents to /tmp/bootdisk, unmount it copy the network.rdz (which is a gzipped initrd.img) to /tmp gunzip the network.rdz and mount it extract with 'mar' the kernel modules from modules/modules.mar to /tmp/modules_all mount the network_drivers.img, again extract with 'mar' the modules from the contained modules.mar to /tmp/modules_all, unmount it with mar create a new modules.mar with the content from /tmp/modules_all overwrite the old modules.mar on the still mounted network.rdz with the new one, unmount it and gzip it again copy the network.rdz back to /tmp/bootdisk and unmount the bootdisk.img the new image is ready to boot :) the installer still asked for the second disk, but I simply answered with 'no' and the installer continued without problem :) Now I have to repeat this procedure with the cdrom.img, hope there won't be any different obstacles... btw you can find the mar packer utility on the mandriva cvs: http://cvs.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gi/mdk-stage1/mar/ I will write a short tutorial about modifying the bootdisks, or even write a script to automate the process if I find some time Thanks for all your helpful answers, friends! Daniel *************************unquote***************** maybe this'll help you to install Mandy. As for the PCLOS install; I suggest you ask on their mailinglist as I don't have that DVD (I think.......is it a LXF one?). >From the error message you get you might want to look at what line 42 says in the jigdo script. Wouldn't be surprised if it's trying to alter a file on the DVD which obviously would be ReadOnly. -- Good luck, HarM ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
