Re: [MLUG] Burning ISO

[Claude <claudec AT studeski.com>]

I am using Mandriva Powerpack Spring 2007. This is not the free version. They do not offer this on the CD version. You only get one shot. If you get the box in the mail, you cannot also download on-line. They are now offering a subscription service. Also you can download Mandriva Official 2008 free. There is quite a difference between the free and pay versions.

Right now my K3B program won't burn the boot CD for me so I can run the network install. It always stalls. I'll have to try another program.

The following is off the Mandriva forum.

I made a successful installation of Mandriva 2008.0 Powerpack using the following procedure:

1) Mount the Mandriva 2008.0 Powerpack DVD iso image in a directory of a ftp server (I tested with proftpd). For example,

mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/mandriva-linux-2008.0-pwp-dvd-i586.iso /var/ftp/pub/pp

If your ftp server is configured with the default configuration now you can see the entire Powerpack DVD directory tree and files from any computer of your network (using any browser or ftp client) in the url ftp://ftpserver/pub/pp/


2) Put a CDROM made with the 2008.0 boot.iso image (it is on every mirror and also inside the Powerpack DVD) in the PC that will be installed and choose FTP installation option. Network interfaces will be detected and if you don't have a DHCP server, the installer will say to you configure manually the network adapter address (and gateway, netmask, etc). After network is up, in the next step choose the manual configuration of the remote ftp server (because if you use the official public mirrors you will have a Mandriva Free installation, not a Powerpack at the end) . Type when asked:

ftp server: name or IP address of the ftp server
path: /pub/pp/i586

(for example; the path above must have the i586 at the end to installer find the all the necessary information and packages for the powerpack installation)

The installation will be made without problems and at the final you will have a 2008.0 Powerpack system using only one CDROM ! It is very useful to the cases where the computer doesn't have a DVD reader/writer/combo and also to massive installation in local networks.

After the installation of the system you can remove the 4 medias used in the Powepack installation (main, contrib, non-free and restricted) and add the corresponding medias of the mirrors (and of course the Mandriva Club commercial repository/media).

P.S.: I think that the same process can be used to make a 2008.0 Powerpack x86_64 installation, of course using the corresponding x86_64 iso image file and changing the path to /pub/pp/x86_64

I think also that the process must work with NFS installation, adapting the procedure for NFS servers.

Claude Chmielewski
REAL/Easy Software
800-732-5327

Tim Bertram wrote:

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I'd be interested in this, I've wanted to do something like this in the
past.  I'm mostly interested in what OS your netbooting.  That was where
I got stuck.

- -Tim

Jonathan Kline wrote:
  

Mount the dvd iso as a loopback device. Export the loopback mounted
over NFS, and netboot your clients and point them to your NFS server
(you should be able to have dhcp assign all of the relevant netboot
stuff)... and if you really want all of the gory details how to set
this up, ask.... it's another option though....

Claude wrote:
    

I have a DVD of Mandriva 2007. How do I burn the ISO to cdrom so I
can upgrade my machines that don't have a DVD drive?
      

Thanks,
      

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