Bootable Installation DVD for Suse 9.0 [COLUG]

[Coppernix]

Hi,
I bought, in France, the magazine "Linux CD" April
2004, with the installation's dvd for Suse 9.0 (7,5
euros)
Excellent, it works fine for me
Patrick



 --- Jim P <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> a ?crit?: >
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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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