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Creating RHEL4 DVD from 5 CD's

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but is there a way I can take the files from all 5 RHEL 4 UPD 4 CD's and make one bootable DVD from them?

I wonder why RedHat isn't doing this already?

Thanks in advance.

You can use this script to build the DVD ISO image, warning some editing may be required but unlikely. If wanted you can create the CD ISO images for whatever reason(s). In either case requires a lot of hard drive space (the size of the 5 CD ISO images times 3 or about 2 times the space of all the files on the 5 CD's)

To build the CD ISO images, insert each CD and do not mount then do something like;

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd#.iso ; note: replace # with the number of the CD (1 to 5)

Code:

#/bin/bash



# by Chris Kloiber <ckloiber@redhat.com>



# A quick hack that will create a bootable DVD iso of a Red Hat Linux

# Distribution. Feed it either a directory containing the downloaded

# iso files of a distribution, or point it at a directory containing

# the "RedHat", "isolinux", and "images" directories.



# This version only works with "isolinux" based Red Hat Linux versions.



# Lots of disk space required to work, 3X the distribution size at least.



# GPL version 2 applies. No warranties, yadda, yadda. Have fun.





if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then

        echo "Usage: `basename $0` source /destination/DVD.iso"

        echo ""

        echo "        The 'source' can be either a directory containing a single"

        echo "        set of isos, or an exploded tree like an ftp site."

        exit 1

fi



cleanup() {

[ ${LOOP:=/tmp/loop} = "/" ] && echo "LOOP mount point = \/, dying!" && exit

[ -d $LOOP ] && rm -rf $LOOP 

[ ${DVD:=~/mkrhdvd} = "/" ] && echo "DVD data location is \/, dying!" && exit

[ -d $DVD ] && rm -rf $DVD 

}



cleanup

mkdir -p $LOOP

mkdir -p $DVD



if [ !`ls $1/*.iso 2>&1>/dev/null ; echo $?` ]; then

        echo "Found ISO CD images..."

        CDS=`expr 0`

        DISKS="1"



        for f in `ls $1/*.iso`; do

                mount -o loop $f $LOOP

                cp -av $LOOP/* $DVD

                if [ -f $LOOP/.discinfo ]; then

                        cp -av $LOOP/.discinfo $DVD

                        CDS=`expr $CDS + 1`

                        if [ $CDS != 1 ] ; then

                                DISKS=`echo ${DISKS},${CDS}`

                        fi

                fi

                umount $LOOP

        done

        if [ -e $DVD/.discinfo ]; then

                awk '{ if ( NR == 4 ) { print disks } else { print ; } }' disks="$DISKS" $DVD/.discinfo > $DVD/.discinfo.new

                mv $DVD/.discinfo.new $DVD/.discinfo

        fi

else

        echo "Found FTP-like tree..."

        rsync -avP --exclude SRPMS $1/* $DVD

#        cp -av $1/* $DVD

        [ -e $1/.discinfo ] && cp -av $1/.discinfo $DVD

fi



rm -rf $DVD/isolinux/boot.cat

find $DVD -name TRANS.TBL | xargs rm -f



# My thanks to Mubashir Cheema for suggesting this fix.

# cd $DVD

mkisofs -J -R -v -T -o $2 -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 8 -boot-info-table $DVD



/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/implantisomd5 --force $2

# Don't like forced mediacheck? Try this instead.

# /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/implantisomd5 --supported-iso --force $2



cleanup

echo ""

echo "Process Complete!"

echo ""

Creating RHEL4 DVD from 5 CD's

I used this script to create the dvd. I selected everything in the software menu and it fails on the cyrus package. I was able to successfully install everything but the cyrus package. Is there anyway that i can put in a functional cyrus package?

Try installing the package directly from the media. From the console or xterm session as root where the rpm files are type something like;

rpm -Uvh the_filename_here

Example; rpm -Uvh foo-1.0.1.i386.rpm

thanks for the info...

Your welcome, glad to help.

Creating RHEL4 DVD from 5 CD's

I want to place these DVDs in each of our specialized servers. Is there a way to inject the specialized applications into the iso image on the DVD (ie, spam filter applications, etc.)

Yes, this is possible but it takes some reading and work. To get you started;

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/RedHat-CD-...e-updates.html
http://www.cpqlinux.com/rh80customcd.html

And Scientific Linux has info on this also;

https://www.scientificlinux.org/dist...sites/example/

Creating x86_64 DVD from RHEL 4 Distro

Hi,

I have managed to create a single bootable/customized DVD of RHEL 4. I am trying to do the same thing with the 64-bit version. Is there something unique that I need to do to make this iso?

I noticed in my xander file there are both 64-bit and 32-bit rpms? Are these necessary?

P.

For the most part yes both the 32bi and 64bit rpm packages are needed.

O/S upgrade to a level lower than the current Upgrade level

I received a server with RHEL es4u0 already installed in it. The application I need to install on this server is certified for RHEL es4u1 only.

Currently the current upgrade level on the RedHat website is es4u5.

Obviously, I cannot use up2date out of the box on the server because it will upgrade it to an uncertified level.

I have downloaded and burned the es4u1 cds. Short of reinstalling the o/s from scratch with these cds, does anyone know of a way to upgrade only to u1?

Thanks.

You can use the CD's to upgrade, the installer should provide an upgrade option.

Of yon can create a directory named something like RHEL4u1 for example and copy all the rpms form the CD's into this location. Install both the createrepo and yum packages from Dag's site;

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/

When done do from the directory; createrepo /RHEL4u1

Then create a local yum repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d directory named something like media.repo which looks like;

[rhel-media]
name=Red Hat-$releasever - Media
baseurl=file:///RHEL4u1
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

Then as root do; yum update

Consider it practice for RHEL5.

Thanks for the response.

Tried the yum approach but ran into trouble installing the yum rpm.

It required python-sqlite which in turn required libsqlite.so.0. I downloaded and installed the python-sqlite-src rpm but it was not there. Would you know where I could get the libsqlite.so.0 file or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Thanks again.

Read this: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Packag...ment/YumOnRHEL

And you might as well make Dag's site a repo also: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B

FYI: for now it is a good idea to disable the CentOS repos or not use yum from CentOS but do install the listed sqlite and python rpm packages, these you should already have or you can get then from either the CentOS vault site(since you want to stay at the u1 level) or Dag's site;

http://vault.centos.org/4.1/os/
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/

CentOS4.1 == RHEL4u1