On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 09:42:54AM -0700, bruce wrote: > So.... > > Are you basically saying if I copy an ISO file to a CD.. I get an > "installation tree" structure... That doesn't seem to make sense to me...
No, you don't "copy an ISO file to a CD...", you "burn image file"
onto the CD. There is a difference. If you "copy" it to a CD, you;ll
have a CD containing an ISO file. This is not what you want.
The ISO file is basically an image of a CD, it contains the CD file
system. So, you have to treat it as an image file so that when you're
done and view the CD you'll see the things that are within the ISO file.
If youse "Easy CD Creator" (on windoze), for example, pull down the
FILE menu and choose (from memory) "create CD from disk image", and
in the dialog that pops up change the file type from its default setting
(I don't recall what it is) to "iso". Select the ISO file and you're
off and running.
>
> I believe I need the installation files, as I believe I'm going to need to
> use either FTP/HTTP to upgrade to RH 9.0. Since I'm trying to do a remote
> upgrade, I'm not going to have access to the CD player, and I will not be at
> the keyboard...
If you have the ISO files, and a Linux box, you can mount the ISO file
so you can then access its contents like any other mounted volume (with
the exception that an ISO filesystem is read only):
mount -oloop foo.ISO /mnt/loop
(you may need to create /mnt/loop).
>
> So.. I still have the question.. How/where do I get/create the installation
> file tree.
See above.
>
> The funny thing is that I have them for RH8.0 on one of my windows drives...
> so I know that I went through this once before... Can't find my notes on
> what I did though!!!
See above.
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:13:15 -0700, bruce wrote:
>
> > I'm reading through the redhat installation material and it makes
> reference
> > to ISO files, and "installation tree" files.... I can get the ISOs from
> > RedHat (9.0)... but i'm not sure how/where the files to make up the
> > installation tree come from. Can they somehow be derived from the ISO
> > files??? Or, do I have to download the tree structure from another
> mirrored
> > site?
>
> No. ISO is short for ISO 9660 file-system, which is the file-system
> of a CD. An "ISO image file" is a raw copy of a CD and hence
> contains a file-system. Burnt to a CD-R[W], you could access the
> files and directories in that file-system. With Linux, you could
> even mount the ISO image directly via a loopback device:
>
> mount image.iso /mnt/somewhere -o loop
>
> With Microsoft Windows you may need tools like IsoBuster to access
> the file structure in an ISO image.
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