RH8 hard disk install

[Alok]

I need help to install RH8 on my PC:
P4 2.4 Ghz HT
256 MB RAM
40 GB pri Master
4 GB pri. Slave

I have the contents of all 5 RH8 Cds on my Hard disk, in their own
directories, with subdirectories.
How can i create iso images of these directories to use for a hard
disk install? My attempts are not recognised by the installation.
Are there some specific parameters to enter while creating the image
in Nero 5.5
Alternately is there another method to make the images out of the
directories?
Thanks
Alok

[James Knott]

Alok wrote:

> I need help to install RH8 on my PC:
> P4 2.4 Ghz HT
> 256 MB RAM
> 40 GB pri Master
> 4 GB pri. Slave
>
> I have the contents of all 5 RH8 Cds on my Hard disk, in their own
> directories, with subdirectories.
> How can i create iso images of these directories to use for a hard
> disk install? My attempts are not recognised by the installation.
> Are there some specific parameters to enter while creating the image
> in Nero 5.5
> Alternately is there another method to make the images out of the
> directories?
> Thanks
> Alok

When I used the hard disk install, I put all the ISO images in one directory
and then told the install program where they were.

What happened to the images you had?

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[Alok]

I don't have the images. I just copied the contents of the CDs onto my
hard disk, because the CDs weren't mine

James Knott <bit_bucket@rogers.com> wrote in message news:<1fqab.497667$4UE.168359@news01.bloor.is.net. cable.rogers.com>...

> Alok wrote:
>

> > I need help to install RH8 on my PC:
> > P4 2.4 Ghz HT
> > 256 MB RAM
> > 40 GB pri Master
> > 4 GB pri. Slave
> >
> > I have the contents of all 5 RH8 Cds on my Hard disk, in their own
> > directories, with subdirectories.
> > How can i create iso images of these directories to use for a hard
> > disk install? My attempts are not recognised by the installation.
> > Are there some specific parameters to enter while creating the image
> > in Nero 5.5
> > Alternately is there another method to make the images out of the
> > directories?
> > Thanks
> > Alok

>
> When I used the hard disk install, I put all the ISO images in one directory
> and then told the install program where they were.
>
> What happened to the images you had?

[Lenard]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:32:01 -0700, Alok typed:

> I don't have the images. I just copied the contents of the CDs onto my
> hard disk, because the CDs weren't mine

Borrow the CD's again, this time make ISO images of them, Nero can do this
just fine. Then you can burn the ISO's to CD's as you should have in the
first place. It's possible to make the CD's from the files you have
stored, but this is not as easy to do as it is to describe. And instead of
making additional coaster, just copy the CD's as an ISO image and create
then CD's later.

FYI: You don't need the CD's burned to install RH8, you can do this later.

As long as the ISO images of the CD's are on a FAT32 partition you can
install RH8 from them by following the directions here;

[url]http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/s1-begininstall-hd.html[/url]


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[Vwakes]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 Lenard wrote:

>
>As long as the ISO images of the CD's are on a FAT32 partition you can
>install RH8 from them by following the directions here;

Yeah. And make sure you name the ISO's as follows

shrike-i386-disc1.iso
shrike-i386-disc2.iso
shrike-i386-disc3.iso
shrike-SRPMS-disc1.iso
shrike-SRPMS-disc2.iso
shrike-SRPMS-disc3.iso

Something tells me it won't work otherwise.

GL
V.

[Vwakes]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 Vwakes wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 Lenard wrote:

>>
>>As long as the ISO images of the CD's are on a FAT32 partition you can
>>install RH8 from them by following the directions here;

>
>Yeah. And make sure you name the ISO's as follows
>
>shrike-i386-disc1.iso

[...]

My bad, it's RH 8.0, isn't it? So you have to

psyche-i386-disc1.iso
psyche-i386-disc2.iso
psyche-i386-disc3.iso
psyche-i386-disc4.iso
psyche-i386-disc5.iso

>Something tells me it won't work otherwise.

Yeah

V.

[Alok]

It's a long story but I don't have the discs available to me. I only
have the contents of the discs on my hard drive.
Can you still help me?
Alok

Vwakes <vwakeNOSPAM100@softhome.net> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.55.0309191525200.5270@xnqnccn.cva rzna>...

> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 Vwakes wrote:

> >On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 Lenard wrote:

> >>
> >>As long as the ISO images of the CD's are on a FAT32 partition you can
> >>install RH8 from them by following the directions here;

> >
> >Yeah. And make sure you name the ISO's as follows
> >
> >shrike-i386-disc1.iso

>
> [...]
>
> My bad, it's RH 8.0, isn't it? So you have to
>
> psyche-i386-disc1.iso
> psyche-i386-disc2.iso
> psyche-i386-disc3.iso
> psyche-i386-disc4.iso
> psyche-i386-disc5.iso
>

> >Something tells me it won't work otherwise.

>
> Yeah
>
> V.

[James Knott]

Alok wrote:

> I don't have the images. I just copied the contents of the CDs onto my
> hard disk, because the CDs weren't mine
>
>

When you had the CDs, you could have created an ISO file of them and used
that to make your own. However, all you have to do, is download the images
and burn the CDs.

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[James Knott]

Lenard wrote:

>> I don't have the images. I just copied the contents of the CDs onto my
>> hard disk, because the CDs weren't mine

>
> Borrow the CD's again, this time make ISO images of them, Nero can do this
> just fine. Then you can burn the ISO's to CD's as you should have in the
> first place. It's possible to make the CD's from the files you have
> stored, but this is not as easy to do as it is to describe. And instead of
> making additional coaster, just copy the CD's as an ISO image and create
> then CD's later.
>

One thing to watch for, is if they're Red Hat original CDs, with commercial
software on them, he shouldn't be copying them at all. Disks made from
downloaded images can be copied.

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[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

James Knott wrote:

> Lenard wrote:
>
>

>>>I don't have the images. I just copied the contents of the CDs onto my
>>>hard disk, because the CDs weren't mine

>>
>>Borrow the CD's again, this time make ISO images of them, Nero can do this
>>just fine. Then you can burn the ISO's to CD's as you should have in the
>>first place. It's possible to make the CD's from the files you have
>>stored, but this is not as easy to do as it is to describe. And instead of
>>making additional coaster, just copy the CD's as an ISO image and create
>>then CD's later.
>>

>
>
> One thing to watch for, is if they're Red Hat original CDs, with commercial
> software on them, he shouldn't be copying them at all. Disks made from
> downloaded images can be copied.

The "you cannot copy commercial CD's" is a mistaken belief, founded on
the licensing agreements and copycats for *most* CD's, but not true in
this case since these downloadable images are identical to the disks
sold with RedHat installation kits.

[Robert M. Riches Jr]

In article <E43bb.74081$DZ.23331@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.ro gers.com>,
James Knott wrote:

>
> One thing to watch for, is if they're Red Hat original CDs, with commercial
> software on them, he shouldn't be copying them at all. Disks made from
> downloaded images can be copied.

What???

I just reread the relevant portions of the RHL 8.0 license
"agreement" and see nothing about not being allowed to copy
the discs from the boxed set. The only thing prohibited is
_selling_ something that contains or makes use of Redhat's
trademarked images and name.

Robert Riches
[email]spamtrap42@verizon.net[/email]
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

[Vwakes]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 Alok wrote:

>It's a long story but I don't have the discs available to me. I only
>have the contents of the discs on my hard drive. Can you still help me?

Well, you can still try. If you have the files for each disc in separate
directories, you can create ISO image for each disc using some Win app I
don't know which. I guess that should work.

GL
V.

[John Doe]

Alok wrote:

> I need help to install RH8 on my PC:
> P4 2.4 Ghz HT
> 256 MB RAM
> 40 GB pri Master
> 4 GB pri. Slave
>
> I have the contents of all 5 RH8 Cds on my Hard disk, in their own
> directories, with subdirectories.
> How can i create iso images of these directories to use for a hard
> disk install? My attempts are not recognised by the installation.
> Are there some specific parameters to enter while creating the image
> in Nero 5.5
> Alternately is there another method to make the images out of the
> directories?
> Thanks
> Alok

I think you are out of luck, even if you could make iso's from the disk
files, as the first iso will be missing it's boot sector and I believe even
if you install from an iso on the hdd while using a boot floppy it still
looks at information contained in the first iso's boot sector. Your best
bet is to make iso's from valid cd's or download the iso's from redhat or a
mirror.

JD