Re: [suse-autoinstall] Adding the file "info" to an bootable CD/DVD

24 Aug 2005

      Hi Lee, thanks to you and the others as well.
I had to do only cometic changes to your example:

----> gzip -dc /work-iso/initrd >/tmp/initrd.img <------
mkdir /work-initrd; cd /work-initrd  # make a place to extract it
cpio -i < /tmp/initrd.img  # Extract it from cpio archive
cp YOUR_INFO_FILE info  # Put your info file in there
----> find . | cpio -H newc -o  > /tmp/initrd.img  <-----
----> gzip -c /tmp/initrd.img >/work-iso/initrd  <-----

So thanks a lot 
Hajo
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Lee Mayes  08/23/05 2:12 pm >>>
Hi Hajo,
initrd is on the CD, but it's in its compressed form.  Starting with
9.3 for suse (I think it's linux 2.6.10 and greater but don't hold me
to
that, Fedora Core 4 is the same way :) initrd.img is now a cpio image,
not a filesystem, so you don't have to loopmount it to make changes.

# I assume the original ISO is exploded under /work-iso

gzip -dc /work-iso/initrd.img >/tmp/initrd.img   # Uncompress it
mkdir /work-initrd; cd /work-initrd  # make a place to extract it
cpio -i /work-iso/initrd.img  # Put in iso dir

run mkisofs against /work-iso to create a new ISO image with your info
file in it.  Since I've got initrd open anyway, I also poke my
autoyast.xml file in there and add:

AutoYaST: file:///autoyast.xml

to the info file so the bootimage is 100% self contained.

Hope that helps!

Lee

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 13:48 +0200, Hans-Joachim Ehlers wrote:
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Hi folks,
Give 9.3 Suse Pro
Booting from CD 
Installation from Network
I would like to put the file "info" with is used by linuxrc on the
installation cd because using an additional floppy causes to much
trouble.
But i am a little bit lost about howto do that.
Do i have to change the  isolinux.cfg ?
Documentation tells me that the info file should be in initrd but i
can
not find that directory. ?
Any tips ?
tia
Hajo
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