Copyint a F15 install disk

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 13:29 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> I have a F15 install disk. I need to make a copy (don't ask :-).
> 
> This is how I proceeded.
> 
> 1. Mount the DVD on /media/CDROM.
> 2. cp -r /media/CDROM/* /tmp/dvd
> 3. genisoimage -o /tmp/dvd.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
> -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
> -boot-info-table -input-charset iso-8859-1 -m TRANS.TBL -r /tmp/dvd
> 4. Replace source DVD with a blank DVD
> 5. growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=$iso_file
> 6. On booting from the DVD and choosing "New install" the process skips 
> the disk check menu and goes directly to the language choice.
> 
> The original DVD gives me the disk check option. I need to do that.
> 
> Any suggestions as to what step I've missed?

IIRC the checksum on the ISO distribution media is not a file but an
extra sector at the end, so the 'cp -r' won't have copied it.

You need to copy the *image*, not the fileset. Don't mount the source
DVD and use K3b to copy it as an image.

poc