Re: [Cooker] Creating CDs
On Friday 17 November 2000 04:26, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2000 16:32, Warly wrote: Stephen Lesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am familiar with creating new/updated CDs of RedHat and getting them bootable/installable, from the how-to. Where do I find the FAQ for this mailing list, and the how-to on creating cooker install CDs. .. I used the script included on the 72betaftp.php3 page, with modifications as attached, to make the two CDs for 7.2. I have the 7.2 tree rsync'd from Norway. However, the first CD is a bit too big - I get "Track 01: 650 of 656 MB written (fifo 100%).cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error...". The size of the iso file is 656.3 MB. I've thoroughly checked the source tree and there's nothing there that shouldn't be there. Any ideas? OK, fixed it myself. I moved "Tutorial" out of the source tree. I had some problems with the script leaving the "mirror" directory in the "cd1" directory, so I modified the script as attached. CDs burn great! - much better than rsync'ing the isos - thanks. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 Linux 2.2.17-21mdk, Uptime 0 hours 35 minutes Make isos/CDs script
Re: [Cooker] Creating CDs
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 16:32, Warly wrote: Stephen Lesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am familiar with creating new/updated CDs of RedHat and getting them bootable/installable, from the how-to. Where do I find the FAQ for this mailing list, and the how-to on creating cooker install CDs. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72betaftp.php3 or http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/soft/mkcd/ I used the script included on the 72betaftp.php3 page, with modifications as attached, to make the two CDs for 7.2. I have the 7.2 tree rsync'd from Norway. However, the first CD is a bit too big - I get "Track 01: 650 of 656 MB written (fifo 100%).cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error...". The size of the iso file is 656.3 MB. I've thoroughly checked the source tree and there's nothing there that shouldn't be there. Any ideas? -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferred desktop environment KDE 1.1.2 KDE 2.0 still not fit for production machines as of 17-Nov-00. Linux 2.2.17-21mdk, Uptime 1 day 12 hours 53 minutes Script to make iso files and burn CDs
Re: [Cooker] Creating CDs
Stephen Lesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am familiar with creating new/updated CDs of RedHat and getting them bootable/installable, from the how-to. Where do I find the FAQ for this mailing list, and the how-to on creating cooker install CDs. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72betaftp.php3 or http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/soft/mkcd/ -- Warly
Re: [Cooker] Creating CDs
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:32:43PM +0100, Warly wrote: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/soft/mkcd/ Is there, besides of it's 'usage' and the README, an explantaion of prerequisites and requirements for this program? What do I need to have? What do I have to do before? I'v tried 'mkcd -i /big/mandrake' with an empty top dir and got 7 Initialise the architecture. 1 -- /big/mandrake usage mkcd [options] arguments options: . I have a complete (and working) installation tree of Mandrake 7.2 for network installations. It contains all RPM's in one directory. I would like to make 2 ISO's from it too. Liebe Grüße, Nora. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.sappho-net.de/ Lesbian Computer Networks, Finland http://www.sappho.net/ Web for Women (von Frauen, für Frauen) http://www.w4w.net/
