Unofficial "FC 4.1" updated i386 isos [Archive]

drunkahol

25th September 2005, 02:46 PM

I'd actually be in favour of a regulare update for each official release.

i.e. No more than the updated RPM's. Perhaps one every 3 months, finishing when the next official release goes out.

In this way, FC3 would have had an FC3.1 and an FC3.2 (3.2 being released the same time as FC4).

There would be questions about whether this would delay people taking up the new release. I don't believe this would have an adverse impact however.

Where should I go to put this forward?

Cheers

Duncan

P.S. C'mon with the torrent folks. It appears there's only 4 people out there plus me at the moment. I'm not going to go away (not today anyway). Please help out if you've already downloaded!

Jman

25th September 2005, 08:33 PM

It is highly unlikely the Fedora project will officially release updated isos. As discussed on the mailing lists, isos put a burden on the mirror servers (an additional few GB plus lots of bandwidth) and testers. There already is a bit of shortage in testers to test the updates and the test releases.

(I am on the torrent, but I'm being seriously throttled back.)

drunkahol

25th September 2005, 10:29 PM

Jman: That's certainly true. But there's also the argument that people won't necessarily download the latest update if they've already got the core release. It's unlikely, for example, that I'd be interested in this download if I wasn't having to reinstall a laptop.

I'd just stick with the download I've already got and apply the hundreds of updates.

But if I needed an install of FC? and didn't have one to hand, I'd be gratefull of an updated set of iso's.

I can see both sides of the argument. You could only find out if there would be a large impact by trying it out once. It could also be made perfectly clear that the normal level of testing had not gone into the updates - they are the same release, but with all the RPM's updated to the latest versions.

It's food for thought.

Cheers

Duncan

P.S. Thanks for the torrent. Seems no-one else is interested at the moment. I've only seen a few other downloaders all day, plus (if I assume right) you with a torrent that hasn't uploaded from me.

mr700

26th September 2005, 12:23 PM

I'm downloading these now, but I'm more interested in a script that does the respin. I have all updates mirrored here, I need them, and would preffer not to waste traffic but customize things a bit and try (I need openvpn, PyKDE, I don't need ... and so on). I think other users would love to do so also.

Dead2

27th September 2005, 11:00 AM

I'm the guy who put these iso's together. It was a fair amount of trial-and-error to figure it out, but it seems to have worked beyond my expectations.

Several people have had success with installing FC4.1 where FC4 did not install due to various kernel issues. This was also what drove me to make these, as we have a few servers here that did not boot/work correctly with the original kernel.

So, DVD's? Sure.. will make those when I finish my script for making an updated rpm collection.
The keylog for how I did this? Well, I have saved a (very) crude version of it and will hopefully get time to fix it up soon.

Now, if anyone want to help me out with this project. I would like to backport some anaconda (installer) fixes from rawhide. If anyone feels up to this, you can join me for a irc chat at #circlestorm on EfNet.

Btw: Why is it that so often when someone is release something new, the author is moving to a new house and thus be offline for a week or so? I have wondered this several times in the past, and now that I finally got around to releasing something myself.. Well, I was moving! Anyways, the new house now has an internet connection so I can work on this project more again.

Dead2

27th September 2005, 02:52 PM

The list of rpm versions has now been added to the website.

Btw, any feedback from successful and/or failed installations wanted, even those just stating that it worked on 1 machine.

paulcunningham

28th September 2005, 02:33 AM

I needed the 4.1 Unofficial ISO's after an Oops in the sata_sil code prevented 4 of my IBM Netfinities with dual CPU's and Serial ATA's from installing FC4. Thanks to the creator of the 4.1 ISO's.

Having access to more frequently available ISO's will not necessarly increase the number of ISO's I download. These machines were previously running RH9 for the last 2 years without any issues. Upgrading machines is not an easy decision at any time for me, but necessary in this case as RH9 did not support Serial ATAs. Knowing there has been less testing doesn't affect me too much. I will run these machines in our specific environment for 3-4 weeks regardless of the amount of testing that has gone into the release before allowing them to go-live. If they survive, I will not repeat the process just because FC5 becomes available. There will need to be a very strong argument (ie. something is broken) before I will go through an upgrade cycle again.

As I see it the Unofficial 4.1 ISO's prevented a very bad situation - having to switch to another dist.

packy

28th September 2005, 08:21 AM

Btw: Why is it that so often when someone is release something new, the author is moving to a new house and thus be offline for a week or so? I have wondered this several times in the past, and now that I finally got around to releasing something myself.. Well, I was moving! Anyways, the new house now has an internet connection so I can work on this project more again.

Perhaps it has something to do with the sexual tension from doing something smart and cool with technique, all the women in the area will be all over the person in a matter of minutes, wanted or not, the dude needs to run! RUN!

Oh, I've jumped on the .torrent and hope to make a succesfull install with these. Great work man!

ieuuk

28th September 2005, 03:47 PM

i'm pulling them down as we speak, should help to reduce the worst of the yum updates.

also... will there be x86_64 versions etc avaliable at some point?

I think this is a great idea.

MHouse

30th September 2005, 12:29 AM

I needed the 4.1 Unofficial ISO's after an Oops in the sata_sil code prevented 4 of my IBM Netfinities with dual CPU's and Serial ATA's from installing FC4. Thanks to the creator of the 4.1 ISO's.
Exact same reason that I'm joining the torrent! Need an installer ISO with that updated kernel for my sata...

Now I can wipe Windows Vista Beta 1 and put on FC4 instead! :p

mbokil

2nd October 2005, 01:54 PM

I am interested in installing this I want my gnome 2.12 now. Would I be able to use yum to keep the 4.1 version updated?

Jesus-Franco

2nd October 2005, 05:20 PM

Nice to see the community comming along and doing something cool. After all Fedora is a community project, but so far the "community" hasn't been all that good. I see great things going for us in the future as a whole.

//stops talking like a preacher

Jman

2nd October 2005, 09:31 PM

I am interested in installing this I want my gnome 2.12 now. Would I be able to use yum to keep the 4.1 version updated?
Yes you can keep this system updated with yum. No Gnome 2.12, however, this is still FC4 with Gnome 2.10.

mbokil

3rd October 2005, 02:28 AM

Yes you can keep this system updated with yum. No Gnome 2.12, however, this is still FC4 with Gnome 2.10.

Oh then I will skip it. I want the good stuff in 2.12. I tried to install it by hand but ran into all kinds of config problems. Will another version be coming out eventually with 2.12?

Dead2

3rd October 2005, 09:35 AM

Oh then I will skip it. I want the good stuff in 2.12. I tried to install it by hand but ran into all kinds of config problems. Will another version be coming out eventually with 2.12?

I will not release FC4.2 (or any later version) with Gnome 2.12 unless it is released as an _official_ update to FC4. There are no new features in these respins, I only repackage with the newest released updates. This can solve install / first-boot problems, and it also makes sure you don't need to download the whole history of updates.

In other news.. You might see FC4.2 soon, I've already made a few test images and I'm currently working on making x86-64 images.

mbokil

3rd October 2005, 01:51 PM

Could you be financially enticed to put out a Gnome 2.12 version with the latest Fedora? I have some donations from my site for extensions I wrote and could make a donation via paypal.

Dead2

4th October 2005, 12:08 PM

Could you be financially enticed to put out a Gnome 2.12 version with the latest Fedora? I have some donations from my site for extensions I wrote and could make a donation via paypal.

I'm sorry, but no. That is a whole other can of worms.

First you'd have to make it and every dependency compile properly with any needed Fedora patches.
Then you'd need make sure it integrates properly with the rest of the system, this includes making proper rpm spec files and possibly patching/upgrading other utilities to make use of the new api.
After that you'd need a lot of regression testing.
And finally, you need to cope with the whole support and fix bugs issue.

Not likely that anyone will make a respin like that, possibly backwards compatible rpm upgrade packages but not a whole respin with the new apis and so on.

Btw, what is so much better in 2.12 that 2.10 can't do?

Avix

6th October 2005, 07:06 PM

I second that......now who's idea was fc 4.1?
3rd that for the DVD version! only ADSL but I'll put in what I can.

ieuuk

6th October 2005, 07:41 PM

3rd that for the DVD version! only ADSL but I'll put in what I can.

i think my isp are on to me having left azureus running for a few days... whoops.

erroneus

6th October 2005, 07:52 PM

Jman

7th October 2005, 01:41 AM

2.12 is SO MUCH more stable and noticably faster. With 2.10 I could run for a period of time before the system starts becoming unresponsive. My systems haven't become unresponsive like that since the upgrade.
That's nice but irrelevant. Gnome 2.12 will be in FC5.

These isos are FC4 with official updates.

Dead2

7th October 2005, 01:26 PM

x86_64 release will have to wait, due to the build scripts are not able to make installation isos for other archs then
what the machine is already running. In other words I need to get hold of a x86_64 machine that is not beeing
used.

Because of this, I'm holding the release of FC4.2. I'll also have to put another disk in my build server, 56GB in my build dir is leaving the server short on diskspace currently. Thus also the DVD images will have to wait.
I could have released FC4.2 i386 cd-isos, those are even ready, but I'll respin them when I can either release dvds or x86_64 in addition.

jhhaynes

7th October 2005, 10:49 PM

Pardon my iggorance, but what do I do with a torrent file?

Dead2

8th October 2005, 01:42 AM

Pardon my iggorance, but what do I do with a torrent file?

The .torrent file is sort of a link and contains info about the files and where to get them from.

You should get a bittorrent client in order to download the files.
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ <- is a nice one.

jhhaynes

8th October 2005, 02:16 AM

"The .torrent file is sort of a link and contains info about the files and where to get them from.

You should get a bittorrent client in order to download the files.
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ <- is a nice one."

Uh, well, the machine I usually use to download is one where I am not allowed to install any software.
There is another machine where I am able to install software, and I did download and install a bittorrent
and figured out how to get it started. And it created a directory and the empty .iso files, but nothing
ever downloaded. It just sat there. And it would be useless in general to bittorrent because that machine
is shut down when nobody is using it.

Is there anywhere I can just download the iso images without having to mess with bittorrent?

Dead2

8th October 2005, 02:32 AM

If you are behind a firewall and/or NAT, then please check the following:
-outgoing port 6969/tcp is open
-outgoing port 6881/tcp is open
-incoming port 6881/tcp is open (and if nat: port-forwarded to your internal IP)

You should now get both outgoing(L) and incoming(R) connections in the peers list.
Please note that it can take a little while before the download gets off the 0.0% mark. (Since you have nothing of interest to other peers they only give you a very low priority).

Unfortunately I cannot provide the files on FTP due to bandwidth restraints. I'm barely allowed to host the files as it is, as it takes a quite high load on our lines. Due to it beeing torrents I have so far only uploaded 1/4 of the data that has been downloaded by others. (Due to clients sending eachother data aswell to speed up transfers).

jhhaynes

8th October 2005, 09:40 PM

OK. Thanks. Well you have done something good, that's for sure.

One other question - Does the "starter system" you get when you boot from the CD include the updates that are
in the system that gets installed? Reason I ask is that with the original FC4 disks I couldn't install on my laptop
using X because of the problem with X and the Trident Cyberblade video hardware. So I could install using the
text mode, but then because of the bug I couldn't run X after installation, so had to punt on FC4 for that machine.
I don't know whether the X problem has been fixed with the latest updates. If it has or has not, I'd like to learn that
when I boot up the CD, rather than after doing the installation in full and then trying to start X.

Jman

9th October 2005, 05:57 AM

One other question - Does the "starter system" you get when you boot from the CD include the updates that are
in the system that gets installed? Reason I ask is that with the original FC4 disks I couldn't install on my laptop
using X because of the problem with X and the Trident Cyberblade video hardware. So I could install using the
text mode, but then because of the bug I couldn't run X after installation, so had to punt on FC4 for that machine.
I don't know whether the X problem has been fixed with the latest updates. If it has or has not, I'd like to learn that
when I boot up the CD, rather than after doing the installation in full and then trying to start X.

The installer does have a few fixes, including using a newer kernel. This is one reason these isos were made: the installer wouldn't boot.

If you can find your issue at bugzilla.redhat.com and it has been fixed in an update, these updated isos should fix your problem.

buchalkalan

15th October 2005, 10:14 AM

i just can't download the iso files :(
ma torrent client sits forever and does nothing.. :(

plz help from where can i have the dload.

ieuuk

15th October 2005, 10:15 AM

what are you using to download the files with? also it can take a while to load up and start downloading.
you will also need to open ports in your firewall to get full performance.

buchalkalan

15th October 2005, 10:27 AM

i m usin the official bittorrent client.
And I guess it is working ok (firewall ports etc.) caz previos night i dloaded Gnome LiveCD preview that ws a torrent file too.

Dead2

15th October 2005, 02:39 PM

i just can't download the iso files :(
ma torrent client sits forever and does nothing.. :(

Sorry about that, the power went out in the whole city for more than 90minutes :eek:
The UPS can only supply us with power for about 80minutes :mad:

Anyways, the tracker and the seeding client should now be back online again.

cassao

15th October 2005, 02:50 PM

Does it have any ed2k links?

Dead2

15th October 2005, 02:54 PM

Does it have any ed2k links?
No edonkey, only bittorrent.

cassao

15th October 2005, 02:58 PM

No edonkey, only bittorrent.

:(
Ok... Getting azureus... :)

After downloading, it will be available to aMule users, ok?

Thanks!

jhhaynes

17th October 2005, 08:25 PM

Well, I'm doing the bittorrent thing over dialup, letting it run all night, and after a few days I have the first of the
iso files complete. Except it doesn't seem to be an iso file. Can anyone tell me - is it corrupt and I should start
over, or does the download do something after it finishes all four images to make them look right?

Dead2

17th October 2005, 08:44 PM

Are you sure the first iso file is complete? It might look finished (right size and all) but lacking data bits inside..

If you are running Azureus you can force a check of the contents, if something is wrong it'll just re-download the missing bits and make sure they are correct.

xjfrank

17th October 2005, 09:00 PM

I was unable to ever get FC4 working on my machine, and thus I'm still stuck in Windows. Waiting. Hoping that some day a version of linux that I can easily install php5 on and get it working with my code environment will arrive so that I can free myself. But fc4 just basically allowed me to do a nice fresh install to a dead and useless result. Some snafu with the ati graphics adapter I have (a radeon 9600) and the workarounds all involve editing files I'm clueless about (and I coulnd't get past a frozen black screen anyways so what's the point).

Will this one work? Do any of the patches/upgrades that are between 4.0 and this set of isos resolve the graphics card issue? I'm aching to get this running, but I am very, very hesitant to try without some reason for hope (another dead box at the end of a long install and then having to re-Activate a ton of windows software isn't an experience I have been missing in my life).

...Frankie

Jman

19th October 2005, 03:56 AM

The main page has a list of exactly what packages and versions this has (http://fedora.isphuset.no/rpmlist.txt). Your best bet is to search bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/) for your issue.

Start a new discussion thread if you want to discuss specific issues.
In most cases if an update fixes it 4.1 has it.

cassao

19th October 2005, 02:28 PM

This post is just to report that I`ve installed FC 4.1 successfully on a K6 III 450Mhz with 186MB RAM...
It`s not de ideal machine, but it`s working fine...

Also, my problem with de video resolution is gone. My Trident Blade 3D (do not flame me, i am reactivating this old machine :) ) finally began to work with the 1024x768 resolution, instead of 800x600 that was before on the official FC4...

So, congrats to the people that had this great idea.

Thanks. :D

chas_martel

26th October 2005, 06:22 AM

Does anyone know where I can download 4.1 without using bittorrent?

ieuuk

26th October 2005, 09:23 AM

dont think you can but bittorrent is the best way anyway

jhhaynes

26th October 2005, 05:07 PM

I just got it all after running bittorrent all night for a week or more over dialup. The first CD boots OK on my laptop
and X works OK - previously I had the white screen bug - so am burning the rest of the CDs and doing a test
install. The disks don't seem to have a checksum, so skip the disk test part. And to answer my own earlier
question, don't burn the disks until bittorrent completely finishes. Even tho the first disk appears to be all there
and it has gone on to the others, I got a corrupt disk by burning too soon.

chas_martel

26th October 2005, 05:39 PM

>dont think you can but bittorrent is the best way anyway

Why do you think this is true? It requires me to install new software, the client and then to open new ports in my firewall. Plus it takes longer as I have to wait for it to do its thing.

Hasn't anyone put these things somewhere so us older people can use standard unix
ways of getting to them?

I really appreciate that someone has created this, but I can't understand why it is available only
via bit torrent. ?????????????

I have several machines that currently don't work with FC4 and I REALLY want to give
4.1 a try. They are DELL servers with the LSI SCSI MEGARAID controllers.

Can someone please help me out. I would be very greatful for any help.

Jman

27th October 2005, 01:56 AM

Not everyone has huge upload bandwidth. (http://www.bittorrent.com/introduction.html)

http/ftp mirrors would be welcome if anyone has a few hundred GB of transfer to spare.

ieuuk

27th October 2005, 09:12 AM

because bittorrent means that you dont have to have a huge upload because all of the people that are on it will share there little bit and as you download yours you will give some back to somebody else, that way you dont need huge ftp servers which cost a fortune in leased lines. Its mainly what jman was saying.

dunrite67

28th October 2005, 08:44 PM

I want to try 4.1 out, so I installed BitTorrent client for windows, and the downloads seem to be going pretty good. I have never used BitTorrent before, but shouldnt I be able to burn the first disk after it that disk is done downloading or does it have to download all of them before actually finishing the files. I know that might sound crazy, but I copied the first iso out of the BitTorrent directory and burned it to a disk and tried to boot it, but it wouldnt boot, just to make sure i burned another copy, even though I didnt get an error burning the first one, and still no boot. Can someone give me a checksum of the files, although from reading the BitTorrent help file it seems to verify the integrity already, so what am I doing wrong here?

jhhaynes

28th October 2005, 09:30 PM

My experience was that you have to wait for the torrent to finish before you can be sure that any of the
iso files are good.

ieuuk

29th October 2005, 09:02 AM

yeah, at the end it then goes back and checks all of the iso's against whats on the main server and if there are any bits that are missing or corrupt etc it will go and get them again.

BryanM

30th October 2005, 02:48 AM

I had Fedora working in 800x600 mode using the vesa driver, after a lot of headaches finding out about the vesa fix and the white screen. Then I did the suggested updates today. Now the vesa driver gives me garbage on the screen. Not the white ghostly screen that makes my lcd look like it's getting frosted over in the cold, but just garbage. So I'm trying to get the libvgahw.a file copied onto that machine but cannot get it done! I try to use command line ftp, but get "permission denied" for every site I try. I try to ftp into that machine (after running ftpd), and cannot connect. I copied the file onto a usb drive, but I guess since the usb drive is a fat32 filesystem it can't be read. So as of now I have a somewhat expensive paperweight.

Can anyone help?

I also tried booting up the previous version, but something else must have changed because that doesn't work either. I guess a driver in common or something? I don't know.

dunrite67

31st October 2005, 08:54 PM

yep your right, I let all the files finish and burned them and they are working now. Although it didnt fix my problem of booting, but I will bring that up in another thread. After I fix whatever I am doing wrong, I will let the forum know how the 4.1 disks are working out

dunrite67

2nd November 2005, 02:12 PM

Finally figured out my problem installing onto the adaptec 2015s card. It was the way the bios was seeing the raid drives, I thought they were /dev/i2o/hda but they were actually /dev/i20/hdb. So anyways after I got that taken care of I installed fedora 4.1 with no problems. As with fedora 4.0 I had to type linux noprobe and add device drive i20 block device. It sees the 2015s card and installs perfectly. The only thing I noticed is that there was not a checksum on the cd's so I had to skip testing the cd's, not a big deal though. I am now doing another install, just to make sure I understand what I am doing, since I am very new to linux. This install is also going perfect. I think these 4.1 disks are a great idea. I would like to see a dvd version though.

I also am keeping my bittorrent running, it is the windows version, but I think I have it setup correctly that it will continue to allow others to download from my files, only a T1, but hopefully it helps.

dunrite67

2nd November 2005, 02:35 PM

ok, i just finished the second install of 4.1
This time I installed "everything" since this is really just a test machine for me to learn about linux and fedora. The only problem I had was towards the end of the install, with only about 2 minutes left, the system kept asking me for disk 3, it would grab one or two files and then want disk 4 back. This happened about 8 to 10 times. Although it seemed to work this was kind of annoying, especially since I am on a console outside the server room, and had to keep going back and forth. I do not know if this was the 4.1 disks or if the same problem would have happened on 4.0, since the last time I installed 4.0 I used the DVD version.
I also should mention that the machine I installed on is a Tyan Thunde s2882-D, 246 processor, 2 gigs of ram, adaptec 2015s, 2 drives in raid 1 for the os, 1 scsi drive ands 1 sata drive with a plextor DVD writer -16 I think.

Dead2

10th November 2005, 02:48 PM

Thanks to everyone for giving feedback on FC 4.1, as I write this I'm laying the final touches on FC4.2 and you should see it online shortly.

Since I'm moving on to 4.2, I will probably no longer be monitoring this topic.

Edit: Forgot to say that this torrent has been downloaded approx. 300 times in full so far.
FC 4.1 will stay up still for use if 4.2 is not appropriate for some machines for whatever reasons.

Dead2

10th November 2005, 02:57 PM

The only problem I had was towards the end of the install, with only about 2 minutes left, the system kept asking me for disk 3, it would grab one or two files and then want disk 4 back. This happened about 8 to 10 times.

This probably happened due to space constraints. The installer had to shuffle files a bit to fit just 4 CDs.
FC 4.2 will be 5 cds.

erroneus

10th November 2005, 03:14 PM

Dead2

10th November 2005, 03:24 PM

Nice... if it will help, I will SEND you a DVD writer and some blank media. I'd really like to see this project propogated... (not just by you, but by the whole Fedora Core project) But what incentive could I provide for the creation of a DVD version of this as well as CD? (And by the way, please provide a link to the new thread announcing the release of the 4.2 release.)

Thank you, but I already have a dvd burner and media.

What I lack is time and space. The servers doing the build use about 1 hour for a complete interactive rebuild, problem is like today I had 3 failing builds. That eats a whole lot of time and energy.

Also I'm running kind of short in diskspace in these boxes.. One is a laptop (x86_64 is built on my Acer Ferrari 4005). The other is a rack server with limited space for extra drives.

Working on it though..

As for the FC4.2 release? Consider it released! Website is updated and announcement sent to fedora-users list. Hopefully Jman will post a new news thread.

PS: Like my announcement states, it has not been install-tested yet due to lack of time. Feedback is therfore wanted.

ieuuk

10th November 2005, 03:37 PM

Thank you, but I already have a dvd burner and media.

What I lack is time and space. The servers doing the build use about 1 hour for a complete interactive rebuild, problem is like today I had 3 failing builds. That eats a whole lot of time and energy.

Also I'm running kind of short in diskspace in these boxes.. One is a laptop (x86_64 is built on my Acer Ferrari 4005). The other is a rack server with limited space for extra drives.

Working on it though..

As for the FC4.2 release? Consider it released! Website is updated and announcement sent to fedora-users list. Hopefully Jman will post a new news thread.

PS: Like my announcement states, it has not been install-tested yet due to lack of time. Feedback is therfore wanted.

i have the i386 and x86_64 version of 4.2 on download now... i dont have a huge connection though so it might take me a while.

ieuuk

10th November 2005, 04:04 PM

hey, is there going to be fc 4.2 versions of the rescue disc because i install my servers over nfs using the rescue disk.

pdxplm

10th November 2005, 04:12 PM

Just want to thank you VERY much for all your time and hard work on putting this together!

ieuuk

13th November 2005, 04:06 PM

im just about to try 4.2 to see if it solves my sata problem,

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=84780

Paul_Vandenberg

25th November 2005, 01:56 PM

I found this script on the CentOS forum. I used it create a DVD ISO from the 5 CD ISOs for FC 4.2. Worked great. The exception was that the script didn't find a sha1sum value to embed. But that wasn't critical. The only problem is that you can't do a media check when installing. Other than that everything worked great. It is supposed to work for any Red Hat type CD ISOs. However, I doubt it will work for FC5 Test1 as they are making many anaconda changes and if this script worked for that, I am sure they would have provided a DVD ISO. I will reiterate what I saw on the CentOS forum, that this is provided as is, with no warranties, yada, yada! Hope it helps!

I copied and pasted the script and saved it to a file called makedvdiso.sh. I then ran as root......
sh makedvdiso.sh <directory where CD ISOs are> <directory and file name of new DVD ISO>

Script is......
#!/bin/bash

# by Chris Kloiber <ckloiber@redhat.com>

# A quick hack that will create a bootable DVD iso of a Red Hat Linux
# Distribution. Feed it either a directory containing the downloaded
# iso files of a distribution, or point it at a directory containing
# the "RedHat", "isolinux", and "images" directories.

# This version only works with "isolinux" based Red Hat Linux versions.

# Lots of disk space required to work, 3X the distribution size at least.

# GPL version 2 applies. No warranties, yadda, yadda. Have fun.

if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
echo "Usage: `basename $0` source /destination/DVD.iso"
echo ""
echo " The 'source' can be either a directory containing a single"
echo " set of isos, or an exploded tree like an ftp site."
exit 1
fi

cleanup() {
[ ${LOOP:=/tmp/loop} = "/" ] && echo "LOOP mount point = \/, dying!" && exit
[ -d $LOOP ] && rm -rf $LOOP
[ ${DVD:=~/mkrhdvd} = "/" ] && echo "DVD data location is \/, dying!" && exit
[ -d $DVD ] && rm -rf $DVD
}

cleanup
mkdir -p $LOOP
mkdir -p $DVD

if [ !`ls $1/*.iso 2>&1>/dev/null ; echo $?` ]; then
echo "Found ISO CD images..."
CDS=`expr 0`
DISKS="1"

for f in `ls $1/*.iso`; do
mount -o loop $f $LOOP
cp -av $LOOP/* $DVD
if [ -f $LOOP/.discinfo ]; then
cp -av $LOOP/.discinfo $DVD
CDS=`expr $CDS + 1`
if [ $CDS != 1 ] ; then
DISKS=`echo ${DISKS},${CDS}`
fi
fi
umount $LOOP
done
if [ -e $DVD/.discinfo ]; then
awk '{ if ( NR == 4 ) { print disks } else { print ; } }' disks="$DISKS" $DVD/.discinfo > $DVD/.discinfo.new
mv $DVD/.discinfo.new $DVD/.discinfo
fi
else
echo "Found FTP-like tree..."
cp -av $1/* $DVD
[ -e $1/.discinfo ] && cp -av $1/.discinfo $DVD
fi

rm -rf $DVD/isolinux/boot.cat
find $DVD -name TRANS.TBL | xargs rm -f

cd $DVD
mkisofs -J -R -v -T -o $2 -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table .
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/implantisomd5 --force $2

cleanup
echo ""
echo "Process Complete!"
echo ""