Unpacking an iso file?

Keith Roberts keith at karsites.net
Fri Oct 5 18:29:12 UTC 2007


Thankyou for that Russ. There's alot there. Probably alot 
more than I currently need, but I will bookmark it for later 
reference anyway.

Kind Regards

Keith

On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, R P Herrold wrote:

> To: Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>,
>     For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>     <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> From: R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com>
> Subject: Unpacking an iso file?
> 
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Keith Roberts wrote:
>
>> I have downloaded the 7.92 test 3 DVD iso image. I would like to put 
>> this on my local web server, and do a network install from that onto my 
>> laptop, via http. I suppose this would be a lot faster than a network 
>> installation across the internet?
>
> substantially  ;)
>
>> Are there any Linux utilites that would allow me to unpack the iso's 
>> contents into my web server directory please?
>
> There is a script for this, which has been working for me to set up ISO 
> images for LTSP, and RHL test installs -- looking at it I first published 
> an ancestor of the current scriipt externally five years ago.  Looks like 
> I started using it before RHL 6 days. See item 6.
>
> 	http://www.owlriver.com/tips/pxe-install/
>
> Other approaches to hang ISO images for wire installs abound as well. 
> From doco from its upstream:
> 	http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-steps-network-installs-x86.html
>
> - Russ Herrold
>

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