On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 13:29 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
I have a F15 install disk. I need to make a copy (don't ask :-).
This is how I proceeded.
1. Mount the DVD on /media/CDROM.
2. cp -r /media/CDROM/* /tmp/dvd
3. genisoimage -o /tmp/dvd.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
-c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
-boot-info-table -input-charset iso-8859-1 -m TRANS.TBL -r /tmp/dvd
4. Replace source DVD with a blank DVD
5. growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=$iso_file
6. On booting from the DVD and choosing "New install" the process skips
the disk check menu and goes directly to the language choice.
The original DVD gives me the disk check option. I need to do that.
Any suggestions as to what step I've missed?
IIRC the checksum on the ISO distribution media is not a file but an
extra sector at the end, so the 'cp -r' won't have copied it.
You need to copy the *image*, not the fileset. Don't mount the source
DVD and use K3b to copy it as an image.
poc