Re: Burning a CD


Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Thu, 6 May 1999 13:41:32 -0600 (MDT)


Carlos,

Make sure that all of the binaries in RedHat/instimage/usr/bin
have execute permission. The permissions most likely didn't get preserved
when you downloaded.
Dan

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Carlos Antonio Perez wrote:

>
>
> Hi. I live in Mexico. We have a terrible mail system, so I dont
> dare order a CD. Yet I need to install linux on 10 performas 6360s
> WITHOUT network capabilities.. So I decided to burn my own CD.
> I downloaded everything to a pentium running
> linux, and used mkisofs to make the image using Rockridge. Everything
> worked fine except that the install program is only capable of
> partitioning and installing to msdos formated disks. It would seem that
> the install script loads a diferent ramdisk.image (2nd stage) if it cannot
> detect a macintosh CD.
> My guess is I need to burn the disk with rockridge extensions AND
> with macintosh desktop files (desktop.db and desktop.df). Am I correct? If
> so, how can I acomplish this?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
>
> Carlos Antonio Perez Delgado
> NetAdmin CS.BUAP.MX
> carlos@cs.buap.mx
> PGP: hkp://pgpkeys.mit.edu:/"Carlos A. Perez <carlos@cs.buap.mx>"
>
> "Los verdaderos programadores solo programan en C porque es el lenguaje
> mas facil de deletrear."
>
>

Dan

Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
 email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
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