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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat kickstart from DVD? Post 81245 by rhfrommn on Wednesday 17th of August 2005 03:00:45 PM

08-17-2005

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Red Hat kickstart from DVD?

Hello,

I've spent 4-6 hours searching on Red Hat's website and googling looking for this and haven't found anything. But I can't believe it isn't there so I'm wondering if anybody knows where I can find the information.

We are trying to set up kickstart through a DVD for use in remote offices. We have a kickstart server which works great at our main office. We just toss in a boot cd which gets the system in contact with the kickstart server and half an hour later we have a bootable RHEL3 box. We would like to put all that onto a DVD so that somebody at a remote office that can't boot off our network can just boot from the DVD and kickstart the box from that same DVD.

I know you can create a kickstart boot CD, then manually put in the installation CDs one at a time. There must be a way to put all those CD images on one DVD and have it do the install without having to swap CDs like that. Or maybe you could just dump the package directory and ks.cfg file from our network kickstart server to a DVD as an alternative way to do it. But I can't find a set of instructions for doing either of those.

Anybody have a link or document on how this can be done?

Thanks,
Ralph

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mkcd

mkcd(1M)						  System Administration Commands						  mkcd(1M)

NAME

       mkcd - create bootable Solaris ISO image

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/bin/mkcd -v [-l label] media-root iso

DESCRIPTION

       The  mkcd  utility takes media-root (the root of an on-disk Solaris install media) as input and creates a bootable Solaris ISO image in the
       file iso, using mkisofs(8). The file can then be burned onto a CD/DVD with utilities such as cdrw(1) or	cdrecord(1).  (Neither	mkisofs(8)
       nor cdrecord(1) are SunOS man pages.)

       Caution -

	 The directory tree media-root must contain the file boot/grub/stage2_eltorito, which will be written to the media boot sectors. This file
	 will be modified with some boot information, thus it must be writable. If necessary, first save a copy prior to running this utility.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -l label

	   Sets label as the label/volume name of the ISO image.

       -v

	   Verbose. Multiple -v options increase verbosity.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       media-root

	   Top-level directory of an on-disk Solaris install media.

       iso

	   Name of the output file which will contain the resulting ISO image.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1 Creating an ISO Image and Burning a CD/DVD

       The following commands create an ISO image from the content of s10u1 and burn the image to a CD/DVD.

	 # /usr/bin/mkcd s10u1 s10u1.iso
	 # /usr/bin/cdrw -i s10u1.iso

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Committed 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       cdrw(1), attributes(5)

       mkisofs(8), (/usr/share/man/man8/mkisofs.8), in the  SUNWfsman package (not a SunOS man page)

SunOS 5.11							    25 Jul 2008 							  mkcd(1M)