Some one smarter than me can help on this one. Hopefully I have not made any typos in the following.
For those that have downloaded the FC3t2 DVD.iso file and found it too large. And this is not for the faint of heart. I pay $0.49 or so for DVD blank discs and money is not an object, but I have made some coasters over the past few days.... :-)
Here is what I have done, but it lacks one or more thing(s) that I don't know, so some one can finish where I screwed up...... If I happen to be on the right track. This for the obsessive compulsive that want to get this going this weekend.
As root run through all the following commands:
mkdir /tmp/newDVD
(go to the directory where you have the iso file for FC3t2)
mount FC3-test2-x86_64-DVD.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt
cd /mnt
cp -r .discinfo * /tmp/newDVD
(at this point you can leisurely move to the kitchen and make yourself a peanut butter and banana sandwich and chow down with a glass of milk) :-)
Now you have the expanded DVD in /tmp/newDVD.
Go to
and you'll find a script that will remove the *.i386.rpm files that are duplicated by a *.x86_64.rpm file. Put this script in a directory and
chmod +x rmscript
Now execute the script
./rmscript
You now have a directory structure without the unneeded rpm's for the i386 and this is where there is an option that is needed that I don't know about.
I did a
mkisofs -U -R /tmp/newDVD > /tmp/FC3t2DVD.iso
and I was able to generate a new iso file. I then used K3b to generate a new DVD but it will not boot. vmlinuz is not uncompressed and then the loading process is not started..... The file system on this DVD, when mounted looks good but something is missing. email me direct if you know what I did wrong and I'll then repost (if desired) all the necessary steps. I don't mind the time or the money......
I have a C code that runs in less than 18K (thus L1 cache) in the AMD Athlon 64. It is a serious 64-bit floating point code that will bring any system to it's knees. It runs 33%+ faster than an AMD Athlon XP at the same clock speed (2GHz). Monte Carlo simulation of electromagnetic transport in real planetary atmospheres...... I have some cases that take over 11hrs to run and then spit out a few hundred numbers through stdout. So you can see the obsession for getting an AMD64 running full tilt ASAP.
Again, help appreciated. And hoping that I don't get banned.
TIA
Chuck Adams, K7QO CP-60 WPM k7qo@commspeed.net http://www.qsl.net/k7qo Ham Radio Stuff http://www.k7qo.net/ Physics Stuff
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Chuck Adams wrote:
and I was able to generate a new iso file. I then used K3b to generate a new DVD but it will not boot. vmlinuz is not uncompressed and then the loading process is not started..... The file system on this DVD, when mounted looks good but something is missing. email me direct if you know what I did wrong and I'll then repost (if desired) all the necessary steps. I don't mind the time or the money......
Chuck Adams, K7QO CP-60 WPM k7qo@commspeed.net http://www.qsl.net/k7qo Ham Radio Stuff http://www.k7qo.net/ Physics Stuff
i've made some sort of the same process but i instead remove the /src directory. It wont boot either..Redhat seemed made dvd differently from other distros...i once able to make a bootable dvd from a download tree of Suse ftp... 1. U can just make bootable .iso from /boot/boot.iso in the dvd and use it to make an installation that point to your dvd 2. Just like i do...burn with k3b with "allow overburn " under advance setting. It works...for me