houghi wrote:
I have written a script that does this for you. It is very basic at this moment. Known issues with the script.
1) The calculation of the script is not correct 2) Root password is needed for the mounting 3) Only tested with 10.0Beta2
I've attached a script that worked for me for the 9.3 CDs. Not written by me, though! :) I'm not liable, YMMV, and all that. (I seem to remember sending this already to the list. My outbox I recently emptied. Please forgive if dup. Houghi, maybe you should upload this script to the openSUSE wiki? -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org (o- Penguin #395953 //\ running on ancient Indian wisdom V_/_ and modern computing efficiency #!/bin/bash # Uncomment this section if you have physical cds and want to convert them to # ISOs first. You need to have the ISOs, named as in this script, for this # script to work predictably. #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #echo Please insert disk 1 of 5 and hit any key to continue. #read key #dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD1.iso #echo Please insert disk 2 of 5 and hit any key to continue. #read key #dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD2.iso #echo Please insert disk 3 of 5 and hit any key to continue. #read key #dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD3.iso #echo Please insert disk 4 of 5 and hit any key to continue. #read key #dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD4.iso #echo Please insert disk 5 of 5 and hit any key to continue. #read key #dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD5.iso #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #Mount the CDs in loopback mode: mkdir CD1 CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD1.iso CD1 -o loop mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD2.iso CD2 -o loop mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD3.iso CD3 -o loop mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD4.iso CD4 -o loop mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD5.iso CD5 -o loop # Create a basic structure to overwrite files we need to modify for the CD (the checksums and boot files). cp -a CD1/boot . mkdir i586 i686 noarch # Create the NEW MD5SUMS as one file in order to allow SuSE to validate (thus install) all of the files from every CD and not just CD #1 # For the i586 directory: cat CD1/suse/i586/MD5SUMS CD2/suse/i586/MD5SUMS CD3/suse/i586/MD5SUMS CD4/suse/i586/MD5SUMS CD5/suse/i586/MD5SUMS > i586/MD5SUMS # For the i686 directory: cat CD1/suse/i686/MD5SUMS CD2/suse/i686/MD5SUMS > i686/MD5SUMS # For the noarch directory: cat CD1/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS CD2/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS CD3/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS CD4/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS CD5/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS > noarch/MD5SUMS # Now, create the ISO: mkisofs -o SuSE_9.3.iso -b boot/loader/isolinux.bin -c boot/loader/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -l -P SuSE -r -T -V SuSE_9.3 -x CD1/boot -x CD1/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD1/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -x CD1/suse/i686/MD5SUMS -x CD2/suse/i686/MD5SUMS -x CD2/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD2/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -x CD3/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD3/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -x CD4/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD4/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -x CD5/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD5/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -graft-points CD1 boot/=boot suse/i586/MD5SUMS=i586/MD5SUMS suse/noarch/MD5SUMS=noarch/MD5SUMS suse/i686/MD5SUMS=i686/MD5SUMS suse/=CD2/suse suse/=CD3/suse suse/=CD4/suse suse/=CD5/suse media.2/=CD2/media.2 media.3/=CD3/media.3 media.4/=CD4/media.4 media.5/=CD5/media.5 # Now just burn the ISO to a DVD (hint: use 'growisofs' or your favorite GUI-frontend to 'growisofs'). Optionally, you can mount this ISO like you did #above to verify it will work correctly, or if you don't want to actually burn it. Just call: #mkdir DVD #mount SuSE_9.3.iso DVD -o loop # Enjoy!