Hi Guys

I have my 3 iso images but I would like to create a DVD. Does any one know how to do this?
I'm assuming that I have to mount the 3 CD's on loop back etc so that the filesystem inside them are visable and heard of a makeiso command? I just need some tying all together so I have a bootable DVD.

thanks,

Keith.

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It said on the box to install Windows 98 or better, So I Installed Linux.

I don't know if that would work. The setup program might be looking for actual CDs. I don't know. But if I were to try it I would create a startup diskette for installation of Fedora (if you can with fedora) and then use that diskette as the boot image of the DVD. I would then burn all of the CDs to the DVD making sure not to mess with the file system. In other words put all the files from .../rpms from the CDs to a single rpm folder. Don't create separate folders in the root dir of the CD and call them CD1, CD2, CD3. If you try it let us know how it turns out. I have my doubts about it, however.

Ok I managed to do it, here's the instructions for those that wish to do the same.

1 - Fristly download the Fedora disks.
2 - You'll also need the anacoda-runtime.rpm, for your version (I have redhat 8.0) you'll need this later in step 3.
3 - I found a script and a brief article here : http://www.linuxcompatible.org/story23334.html
Download the script called : mkdvdiso.sh
I needed to make a few changes to the script because it used root filesystem to extract the iso images and I didn't have the free space. The DVD iso images is about 1.9GB + you'll need about another 2GB or so for iso extraction.
What the script does is mount the Fedora disks and copies the data to a temporary area (your DVD data). Once its completed the copy, it uses this newly created DVD data to create ISO Image and make it bootable.
Once its created the DVD.ISO image it will create and insert the MD5hash sum thats used to check the media during installation. This is where the anaconda-runtime files are needed.

Once I had figured out the space problem and the anaconda-runtime files needed it worked without problems. I then used Nero to burn the images to DVD. I ran a media check on a couple of different DVD drives and it passed each time.


Good Luck

Keith

or go here for the official dvd isos...
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/

I am a complete newbie and have never used Linux. I wanted to try it and have been reading about it and I too want to make a DVD ISO rather than 3 CD's -- not least because I don't have any blank CDs at the moment.

Going to the link posted above, it just seems to me that it's so unnecessarily complicated. You have to download some program in order to download the ISO and the program has an .rpm extension which is not recognised by windows. I'm assuming that you already have to have linux installed in order to be able to download this ISO.

For people like me who would like to try Linux on a separate partition and maybe eventually move to it completely, it's this sort of obstical which will make us not bother. Sorry about the rant on my first ever post.

Bittorrent is the program you are making reference to. Go here: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ for a windows version of it and for more info on what it is. Once you have bittorrent installed you can download any file that ends in .torrent. I guess that usually when people post a .torrent file they assume you know what it is because it is a multi platform program.

ps. welcome to LQ

And for future reference, it is better to create your own thread than to tag along at the bottom of another one. That way more people can see your subject and will try and help (hopefully)

@benjithegreat98
Thanks for the iinfo and the welcome. I'll try that link to the windows version as you say.
In the past on other forums I have avoided starting new posts as I often get a reply with a link to another post saying "this is being covered on this thread" or something like that! but I will start my own in future, I see your point.
I really want to have success with linux and I hope I'm choosing the right distro to start with.
Anyway, thanks once again for your help.