Bootable Installation DVD for Suse 9.0 [COLUG]

[Jim P]

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Here's a script to make two big .iso files for Suse 9.0.
One of them is bootable from which one can install
Suse from scratch without swapping disks.
The other is for the source code.

mkdir -p ~/mnt/suse/tmp
cd ~/mnt/suse/tmp

wget -r -np -c --passive -a log \
ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/suse/suse/i386/9.0
cd ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/suse/suse/i386/9.0

mkisofs -o ~/mnt/suse9.0src.iso -R -J -V "Suse9.0Source" -graft-points \
suse/src/=suse/src
mkisofs -o ~/mnt/suse9.0bootableinstall.iso -R -J -V "Suse9.0Boot" \
- -b boot/loader/isolinux.bin -c boot/loader/boot.cat -no-emul-boot \
- -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -x ./suse/src -graft-points .

# cd ~/mnt; du -s reported
# 7578677 suse
# 4121725 suse9.0bootableinstall.iso
# 3365431 suse9.0src.iso
#
# So, this took 15065833 kilobytes on my machine.

Please let me know how it works for you, particularly, that you can
or can not install Suse with the boot install disk created above.

Needed improvements are:
   generalization to pull content from other mirrors,
      allowing user to either pick a mirror from a list,
      or enter a URL.
   generalization to allow specification of where to store mirror
      and  big .iso files
   Option to exclude downloading of source rpms and to not make
      .iso image for
   Maybe option to pipe output of mkisofs to burner program
      (to reduce need for so much disk space)

Release early, release often.

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