* [gentoo-dev] creating boot cdrom (for full automatic install)]
@ 2002-06-09 22:02 Chad M. Stewart
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From: Chad M. Stewart @ 2002-06-09 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
I sent this to the user mailing list but maybe dev is better. Hoping
someone can help me. :)
-Chad-
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> From: Chad M. Stewart <cms@balius.com>
> To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] creating boot cdrom (for full automatic install)
> Date: 09 Jun 2002 15:04:39 -0400
>
>
> I'm working on creating a fully customized and automatic install of
> Gentoo Linux. Right now I have to hit enter about 5 times if I boot off
> of the default cdrom (16M iso). I'm trying to recreate the boot cd, but
> am having problems.
>
>
> # ls -la
> total 7956
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 9 14:53 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 9 14:37 ..
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 9 14:35 isolinux
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8119004 Jun 9 14:14 stage1-ix86-1.1a.tbz2
>
>
>
> # mkisofs -b isolinux/kernel -f -o ../chad-gentoo-boot-cd-1.iso .
> Size of boot image is 2212 sectors -> mkisofs: Error - boot image './isolinux/kernel' is not the an allowable size.
>
>
> # file isolinux/kernel isolinux/kernel: x86 boot sector
>
>
> I've rebuilt RedHat CDs before, to compare I did a file on their boot
> image and found the following.
>
>
> # file dosutils/autoboot/cdboot.img x86 boot sector, system SYSLINUX, FAT (12 bit)
>
>
> Anyone know how I might rebuild the Gentoo boot cd?
>
>
> Thank you for any help,
>
> Chad
>
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