If you are not bothered about the CD being bootable then just omit the
following from the mkisofs command line:
-b misc/boot/autoboot.img -c misc/boot/boot.catalog
You will then have your ISO image which you can FTP to Windows and burn.
Graham...
Netlink Tech wrote:
>
> I successfully download the directory tree for RH5.1.
> I replaced the old RPMs with the updated ones.
> I verified the structure and made sure that the directory names were
> correct.
> I made the new hdlist with this command(but with my path):
> /temp/rh5/misc/src/install/genhdlist /temp/rh5
>
> I made sure that mkisofs rpm was installed (RH5.0)
> I ran the command (on one line):
>
> mkisofs -b misc/boot/autoboot.img -c misc/boot/boot.catalog -a -A "RedHat
> Linux 5.1 with Patches to 06/12/98" -d -L -o
> /home/web/smiller/curts_stuff/rh51/RH5_1.iso -P "Publisher ID" -p
> "Preparer ID" -r -T -N /home/web/smiller/curts_stuff/rh51
>
> .
> . <output removed here>
> .
> Using L.000 for ./rr_moved/l (l)
>
> Size of boot image is 2880 sectors -> Emulating a 1.44 meg floppy
> Total extents scheduled to be written = 184105
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> --------------------------------
> I got a Seg fault/core dump using the autoboot.img (copied from my
> purchased RH5.0 CD to <my path>/rh51/misc/boot/autoboot.img
>
> This has got me thinking that the 5.0 autoboot.img will not work with the
> 5.1 distribution.
>
> Question:
> I have written a few CDs with my CDROM writer. It is in an NT 4.0
> Workstation and the CDs that I made were Win3.1/Win95/WinNT stuff and work
> fine.
>
> I am not really concerned with booting from a CDROM...as long as I can
> install from cd with a boot floppy. Is it possible to get
> around the autoboot.img issue?
>
> After mkisofs, will I have a single image that I can ftp to my NT
> workstation to burn to the cd?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Curt
>
> On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Jos Vos wrote:
>
> > Cheng Yuan-Chung wrote:
> >
> > > But can anyone tell me that where can I find "autoboot.img"
> > > and "boot.catalog" ???
> > >
> > > I can't find these two files in the misc/boot . :(
> >
> > The file boot.catalog is created by mkisofs itself, so you don't
> > need it (in fact, it's overwtitten if it's already there, I think).
> >
> > The file autoboot.img is currently not (at least not with that name)
> > available in the RH 5.1 tree. We hope someone from RH will tell
> > us more about that. You may want to try the autoboot.img file
> > from the RH 5.0 tree (dunno if that will work properly, it contains
> > another kernel version).
> >
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