> All, > > We need to deploy RH9 to a few places where outside network access is a > no-go. So, here's what I was thinking, and I'd sure appreciate any > help/suggestions I could get. > > Basically, I want to create a bootable DVD that has all three of the RH9 > CD's as well as all of the up2date packages that are current to the install. > I have available a test computer that is identical to the machines to which > I will be deploying, and a Backpack USB DVD burner. Here are my > proposed/theoretical steps: <snip> Well, no reply, so this is what I did: 01) Fresh RH9 install on the computer with all of the required packages (httpd, etc). 02) Copy the /root/anaconda-ks.cfg file to a floppy for later modification 03) mkdir /tmp/rh9 04) do a "cp -r /mnt/cdrom/* /tmp/rh9" for each of the three cd's. 05) mkdir /tmp/rh9/up2date 06) cd /tmp/rh9/up2date 07) wget the new up2date rpms 08) rpm -Uvh *.rpm 09) up2date --register 10) up2date --download --tmpdir=/tmp/rh9/up2date 11) cd /tmp/rh9 12) mkisofs -J -r -T -l -V 'RH-9-Shrke' \ -b images/bootdisk.img \ -c boot.catalog \ -o /tmp/shrike-dvd.iso . Then I copied the .iso image over to my windows machine and burned the DVD from there. FWIW, burning bootable DVD's in RH9 with the Backpack 224101 looks doable. http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/linux/index3.html has the linux software for the backpack drives, and the author of X-CD-Roast says that it will burn bootable DVD's. I just didn't have the time to mess with it all, since I already had a DVD burner working in Windows. Ben the author of X-CD-Roast says that it will create bootable DVD's, but I didn't have time to get the up and working with RH9 (though their website has drv -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
