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Bootable CDROM procedure (estimated :-)) Mark Gilmore Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:20:59 -0700

Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:20:59 -0700

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Any/all feedback/suggestions are most welcome:

1) Create CDROM "/" dir:
         mkdir cdrom
         mkdir cdrom/var
         mkdir cdrom/var/lib
         mkdir cdrom
         cd /cdrom

2) Init RPM database:
    rpm --initdb --dbpath /cdrom/var/lib/rpm --root /cdrom

3) Install kernel RPMs (using ("-dbpath /cdrom --root /cdrom") from
    RH9 install CD 1 (D:\RedHat\RPMS).
    But which ones ?:
         kernel-2.4.20-6.athlon.rpm
         kernel-2.4.20-6.i586.rpm
         kernel-2.4.20-6.i686.rpm
         kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-6.i386.rpm
         kernel-bigmem-2.4.20-6.i686.rpm
         kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13.i386.rpm
         kernel-smp-2.4.20-6.athlon.rpm
         kernel-smp-2.4.20-6.i686.rpm

4) Install Mozilla (and any packages on which it depends).

5) "Make sure that none of the files in/etc are written to."
         Not sure how I'm supposed to tell, other than to start/exit
         Mozilla and then see if any files in /etc have been updated.
    "If they are, move them to /var/etc and create a symbolic link".
         I assume that such a link will "redirect" /etc to /var/etc ?

6) "Create a startup script that mounts the CD as "/" and the hard disk as 
/var".
         I assume that this step should really come *before* #7.
         But where do I place these commands ?
         And is it not critical to redirect /var to the hard disk
         *very* early in the boot process ?
         Otherwise, attempted writes to boot.log will fail.

7) Create a bootable CD holding contents of /cdrom.

Mark Gilmore
http://OmnipotenceSoftware.com 

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