Is it possible to create an Instller DVD of <current>
Hi Forum
Figure the case of oa person that does not have an internet connection, or has a firewalled connection and wants to install Slackware64 <current>, might it be possible to create a Slackware64 <current> DVD...? BRGDS Alex |
yes, but you need to do that from a pc with linux
http://www.slackware.no/makeSlackISOs.sh if you want a usb stick here's a tutorial made for my blog: # mkdir slackware slackware64-current: # rsync -r -a -v --delete --progress --stats --exclude 'source' --exclude 'extra' --exclude 'testing' rsync://rsync.slackware.at/slackware/slackware64-current/ ./slackware slackware-current: # rsync -r -a -v --delete --progress --stats --exclude 'source' --exclude 'extra' --exclude 'testing' rsync://rsync.slackware.at/slackware/slackware-current/ ./slackware # fdisk -l my usb stick is /dev/sdc # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=8M count=1 # fdisk /dev/sdc Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xacdb6963. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won’t be recoverable. Warning: invalid flag 0×0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-1016, default 1): Using default value 1 Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (1-1016, default 1016): Using default value 1016 Command (m for help): t Selected partition 1 Hex code (type L to list codes): 83 Command (m for help): a Partition number (1-4): 1 Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks. # mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1 -L USB # find /usr -name mbr.bin /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin # dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdc # mkdir /media/USB # mount /dev/sdc1 /media/USB # cp -rvp ./slackware/* /media/USB # mv /media/USB/isolinux /media/USB/extlinux # mv /media/USB/extlinux/isolinux.cfg /media/USB/extlinux/extlinux.conf # rm /media/USB/extlinux/isolinux.bin # extlinux -i /media/USB/extlinux # umount /media/USB and when you install select “Install from a hard drive partition“, type "/dev/sdc1", press enter, then type "/slackware64" for slackware64-current, or "/slackware" for slackware-current. |
ftp://ftp.slackware.no/pub/linux/ISO...ent-ISO-build/
Usually this place has them, but they haven't posted one yet. I think AlienBob has a script and I looked for it but did not find it. |
Hi Jokerboy,
Guess I must first download everything from a <current> repo to a folder in my system, right...? Something like wget -r --no-parent http://www.*******./current before running the script... Am I right here, or does the script tahes care of downloading the stuff...? BRGDS Alex |
You can use lftp instead of wget.
Regards |
rsync -r -a -v --delete --progress --stats --exclude 'source' --exclude 'extra' --exclude 'testing' rsync://rsync.slackware.at/slackware/slackware64-current/ ./slackware is the same thing with "wget -r --no-parent http://www.*******./current"
and yes, you have to download all the packages from a repo of -current, the script only uses the files from a local directory, and uses mkisofs to make dvd's. you have to edit that shell script before using it. let's say your username is "alex", here's a example of the script for slackware64-current # mkdir /home/alex/slackware64-current; mkdir /home/alex/current-iso; # rsync -r -a -v --delete --progress --stats --exclude 'source' --exclude 'extra' --exclude 'testing' rsync://rsync.slackware.at/slackware/slackware64-current/ /home/alex/slackware64-current save the next code as mkisoslack.sh in /home/alex Code:
#!/bin/bash # /home/alex/mkisoslack.sh and voila, check /home/alex/current-iso after the script has finished. |
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I've always had good luck with Eric's script. It will d/l, burn & serve you biscuits in the morning.
Regards, Bill |
Hi ppl,
So, I made an ISO from <current64> repo, but instead of using rsync i used wget... my connection is firewalled, ... and also, I did not exclude /source, which means tha I made a big iso, about 4025 Mb... One problem though, wget downloaded all the index.html pages from the download site... In case I burn the DVD with it, will those index.html, which live in each folder, constitute a problem at install time....? BRGDS Alex |
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