[NTLUG:Discuss] Problems making ISO for slackware

Cameron, Thomas Thomas.Cameron at bankofamerica.com
Mon May 24 16:00:17 CDT 2004


What is the output of du -h in the directory that you downloaded Slackware into?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Linux
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 11:04 AM
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> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Problems making ISO for slackware
> 
> 
> 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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