[NTLUG:Discuss] Problems making ISO for slackware

[David Ross]

On Monday 24 May 2004 12:04 pm, Linux wrote:
> I'm currently using redhat 9, it was my first shot at linux.  I liked
> it, but want to try some other distros, and I think I screwd up some
> things in general by not knowing where good places to install programs
> and such.  I'm looking at slackware, but am having issues making the ISO
> out of the files I downloaded.  Every time I use mkisofs, the ISO image
> comes out to be 900mbs up to 1.2 gig, which won't fit on 1 cd. (which
> according to the readme.txt, you can make it fit on 1 cd if you drop
> gnome or kde.)  This leads me to belive that I screwed up and downloaded
> the wrong file or I'm just not understanding something that a veteran
> linux user would see.
>
> Here is what I did:
>
> 1) I went here
> http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/ (offical
> mirror off slackware.com) and downloaded the entire "slackware-current"
> folder.
>
> 2) I copied and pasted the steps for making the ISO from the readme.txt
> (in the isolinux directory), and it made the ISO, which was far too big
> to fit on a CD.  I then added some extra lines in the mkisofs command to
> try to make it small enough, but was still a few hundreded mb's too big.
>
> mkisofs -o /tmp/slackware.iso \
> -R -J -V "Slackware Install" \
> -x ./bootdisks \
> -x ./extra \
> -x ./slackware/gnome \
> -x ./pasture \
> -x ./patches \
> -x ./rootdisks \
> -x ./source \
> -x ./zipslack \
> -x ./testing \
> -hide-rr-moved \
> -v -d -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
> -sort isolinux/iso.sort \
> -b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
> -c isolinux/isolinux.boot \
> -A "Slackware Install CD" .
>
>
> Did I download somes files I wasn't suppose to? (I assume so, but which
> ones?)  I want to use KDE this time around, I use gnome on my redhat
> distro.
>
> Also, I remeber reading of a way to make your windows machine emulate a
> mnt point, so instead of burning the ISO to a CD, you can put it where
> the soon to be linux machine can find and install it with?  My windows
> box with my cd-rw came with some crappy burning software that I don't
> think will handle ISOs.  I'd rather not have to spend the money to buy
> NeoBurn or one like it if possible.  Does anyone have a guide to this (I
> can't seem to find it now, going through so many readmes trying to get
> this working)
>
> Thanks,
> -Kyle
>
>
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Most distros come as an ISO download which can be burnt straight to CD.
Try http://linuxiso.org/  The left hand panel titled "Helpful Stuff" should 
get you in the right direction.
-- 
David Ross
Registered Linux User #344306
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