thor
29th November 2004, 05:09 PM
Hi
I think it would be a cliche' for me to say that I am a Fedora/Linux noob.
I have a really limited amount of experience with Fedora so, when I see
articles on howto create a single boot DVD from CD ISO's in Linux, I get
a bit intimidated.
There is a way to easily create a Fedora Core 3 boot DVD in Windows!
Yes- its the last resort- but none the less a really successful way.
Items Required:
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1. Fedora ISO's in a common folder somewhere on your FAT/NTFS partition
2. An ISO tool e.g. UltraISO (if you do get UtlraISO you will have
to purchase the full version as it only supports files upto 300 MB :(. However I am sure
there must be other utilities out there that can manipulate large ISO's, ISO buster?
3. DVD writer
4. DVD re-writable (can use a DVD-/+R)
5. Patience
PS Bare in Mind that all edits to the ISO file mentioned, are done to the first ISO image:
"FC3-i386-disc1.iso". This is because this file is already bootable.
Step 1:
Extract all the files from Discs 2,3,4, into subfolders (Disc2,Disc3,Disc4 respectively). These folders should be under the folder containing the ISO's.
Step 2:
Open first ISO "FC3-i386-disc1.iso". Double click the file: "\Fedora\RPMS\TRANS.TBL". It should open up in notepad. Now look inside the subfolders created in step one, look for:
\DiscX\Fedora\RPMS\TRANS.TBL (where X is 2 to 4). Copy the list inside each version of these TRANS.TBL files into the original TRANS.TBL file opened in the ISO program. Once all the data is merged/copied into the first file, save it to the root folder where the ISO's are saved.
Step 3:
Drag all the extracted .RPM files (contained in subfolder created in Step 1) into the ISO: "FC3-i386-disc1.iso", folder: "\Fedora\RPMS\".
Step 4:
Drag the merged TRANS.TBL file you saved into the ISO: "FC3 i386 Disc1\Fedora\RPMS\".
Answer "yes" to replace the old file.
Step 5:
Edit the file: .idiscinfo
Change line 4: from " 1 " to: " 1,2,3,4 ".
Step 6:
Save the ".idiscinfo" to main folder.
Step 7:
Replace orginal ".idiscinfo" file with edited one.
Step 8:
Change the capacity of the media to that of the DVD (normally 4.7GB).
Step 9:
Check everything is correct.
That's it, the media should boot, as you used the original Fedora disc1.
Rename the file "FC3-i386-disc1.iso" to "FC3-i386-DVD.iso".
Write this ISO image to DVD with Nero.
I think it would be a cliche' for me to say that I am a Fedora/Linux noob.
I have a really limited amount of experience with Fedora so, when I see
articles on howto create a single boot DVD from CD ISO's in Linux, I get
a bit intimidated.
There is a way to easily create a Fedora Core 3 boot DVD in Windows!
Yes- its the last resort- but none the less a really successful way.
Items Required:
--------------------
1. Fedora ISO's in a common folder somewhere on your FAT/NTFS partition
2. An ISO tool e.g. UltraISO (if you do get UtlraISO you will have
to purchase the full version as it only supports files upto 300 MB :(. However I am sure
there must be other utilities out there that can manipulate large ISO's, ISO buster?
3. DVD writer
4. DVD re-writable (can use a DVD-/+R)
5. Patience
PS Bare in Mind that all edits to the ISO file mentioned, are done to the first ISO image:
"FC3-i386-disc1.iso". This is because this file is already bootable.
Step 1:
Extract all the files from Discs 2,3,4, into subfolders (Disc2,Disc3,Disc4 respectively). These folders should be under the folder containing the ISO's.
Step 2:
Open first ISO "FC3-i386-disc1.iso". Double click the file: "\Fedora\RPMS\TRANS.TBL". It should open up in notepad. Now look inside the subfolders created in step one, look for:
\DiscX\Fedora\RPMS\TRANS.TBL (where X is 2 to 4). Copy the list inside each version of these TRANS.TBL files into the original TRANS.TBL file opened in the ISO program. Once all the data is merged/copied into the first file, save it to the root folder where the ISO's are saved.
Step 3:
Drag all the extracted .RPM files (contained in subfolder created in Step 1) into the ISO: "FC3-i386-disc1.iso", folder: "\Fedora\RPMS\".
Step 4:
Drag the merged TRANS.TBL file you saved into the ISO: "FC3 i386 Disc1\Fedora\RPMS\".
Answer "yes" to replace the old file.
Step 5:
Edit the file: .idiscinfo
Change line 4: from " 1 " to: " 1,2,3,4 ".
Step 6:
Save the ".idiscinfo" to main folder.
Step 7:
Replace orginal ".idiscinfo" file with edited one.
Step 8:
Change the capacity of the media to that of the DVD (normally 4.7GB).
Step 9:
Check everything is correct.
That's it, the media should boot, as you used the original Fedora disc1.
Rename the file "FC3-i386-disc1.iso" to "FC3-i386-DVD.iso".
Write this ISO image to DVD with Nero.
