eric

I used "dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=cd1.iso" to copy my install each
of my PowerPack CD's to disk as cd1.iso cd2.iso etc
then i made a directory for each one cd1 cd2 cd3 etc
then mounted them "-t is09669" "-o loop,ro" cd1.iso on
cd1 cd2.iso on cd2 etc so far so good.
In Mandrake control Center i added "Custom" media and told it
the location was cd1 and to "create media for whole distribution"
from there which it happily did. so now i have all 7 CD's in my
media list But - for some reason, i cant install anything from them, it
always fails
Medium 1 is:
file://extra/PowerPack_7CD_Media/cd1/media/main
.../..//media/media_info/synthesis.hdlist1.cz
Medium 2 is:
file://extra/PowerPack_7CD_Media/cd1/media/main2
.../..//media/media_info/synthesis.hdlist2.cz
etc
But notice its all pointing to directory cd1,
I tried changing #2 to cd2 but that fails and wont update the media
Where did i go wrong?

Thanks
Eric

No, not so good. You apparently told it first to mount /dev/cdrom or
something like that to
/mnt/cdrom. At that point you have a valid set of files in
/mnt/cdrom.When you told it to dd, it simply copied those files to the
single file cd1.iso, and did NOT make and iso. If you want to make an
iso of
them, use mkisofs. Or do
dd of=/dev/cd
NOT /mnt/cd
If what you want to do is to copy the files to your disk, just copy
them from /mnt/cdrom

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
rsync -av /mnt/cdrom/ /2007/cd1
etc.
Now you can use those as directories.
/2007/cd1/media/main/release
is the location of the files
/2007/cd1/media/media_info/hdlist-cd1.cz
is the hdlist file, etc.
(Check that those are actually the names used in your distro.

eric

when i mount each iso i created (they seem to be iso images) and then do an
ls * i see this:
# ls *
cd1.iso cd3.iso cd5.iso cd7.iso umountcds.sh*
cd2.iso cd4.iso cd6.iso mountcds.sh*

cd1:
autorun.inf export isolinux/ MD5SUM README.txt
COPYING index.htm lang/ media/ release-notes.txt
default.xbe install/ LICENSE.txt misc/ VERSION
doc/ INSTALL.txt linuxboot.cfg pkg-2006.0.idx

cd2:
Boot/ media/

cd3:
Dkms/ Firmware/ Intel/ media/ Modules/ Plugins/

cd4:
media/

cd5:
media/

cd6:
media/

cd7:
media/
#
------------
mountcds.sh contains this (I used it to mount the above:
for (( i=1; i<8; i++ ))
do
mount -t iso9660 ./cd$i.iso /extra/PowerPack_7CD_Media/cd$i -o loop,ro
done

Is that wrong? It sems to look right.
Thanks
Eric

faeychild

I think 'dummys' point is- if you 'dd" a mounted dev ( /mnt/cdrom) you get
a file system which is not an '*.iso", it's a file system interpreted by
the kernel / driver.

If you "dd" an unmounted dev (/dev/hdxx) you get raw data, block by block,
which is an "*.iso"

If this is then mounted with loop, it's interpreted as a file stystem again.

This is my dim understanding, I will be corrected I expect.


--
regards faeychild
(Registered GNU/Linux user #374302)

eric

ok, its a typo on my part, i went back and tried some things, i apparently
never did the if=/mnt/cdrom (although that was what was in my head when i
wrote the post) or i would have gotten 0 byte files so i had to have used
dd if=/dev/cdrom My Bad - brain wasnt fully engaged then i guess.
so, the end result is, these are and always were valid iso files and its not
the problem.
Now, why cant i install software from them? especially when using cd1.iso
mounted on directory cd1 I can use that to create the distribution media(ie
it reads and fully understands cd1 but it hasnt a clue how to get to cd2 or
if i modify the entry to point to cd2 it fails still
Trying to add cd1 media alone:
Unable to add medium, errors reported:
...copying failed
Copying what? What is it looking for?
Thanks
Eric

eric

in the path to the hdlist.cz you need to point to the location on cd1
so the entry for cd2 looks like this:
file://extra/PowerPack_7CD_Media/cd1/media/main2
../../../cd1/media/media_info/synthesis.hdlist2.cz
Eric

big yellow hats

Quoth Eric :

Are you planning on doing full network installs to other machines from
this system? If so maybe you need to keep heading down this road but
if not...

Why not do what I do?
1)Open up the media dir on each CD and copy all the RPMs to
~/install_CD_RPMs (call it what you will)
2) ]$ cd ~/install_CD_RPMs 3) ]$ genhdlist
4) ]$ md5sum hdlist.cz synthesis.hdlist.cz > MD5SUM
5) Now it's ready for mcc and gets added as a local source without
balking.
6) Delete the old CDROM sources.
--
The Man in the Yellow Hat
Linux with a monkey, since 1996.

james j. dines

<snip>

At install time the installer offers the option to copy everything to
the hard drive and install from there, leaving it in tact at the end of
the install.

Is there some reason why the simple, GUI installer based method isn't
the best way to do this?
--
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The only way to differentiate "The War on Terrorism"
from "The War on Drugs" is to measure the amount of piss
on the Founding Fathers graves. - James J. Dines

eric

Excellent idea! I'm working on implementing this now - thanks
It will save a small bit of space over the other way i was doing it too.
Eric

eric

" Unable to add medium, copying failed" Whats this mean? copy what to where?
Thanks
Eric