Hello!

I want to burn the five cds to one dvd (bootable) with winXP sp2 ... therefore i used this guide:

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=13332 (german)

...
interessting thing about it everything worked but i got an errormessage while creating the iso:

"mkisofs isolinux.bin is not in an allowable size" ...

my settings of the mksuse10.bat were:

" mkisofs -v -V SU100FTP.001 -r -J -l -L -P "SuSE Linux AG" -b "boot/loader/isolinux.bin"
-c "boot/loader/boot.cat" -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table
-graft-points -o g:\iso\hallo.iso g:\neuerordner "

the problem is the -boot-load-size 4: the isolinux.bin file is not in the size of the 4 sectors ...

i tried very much different -boot-load-sizes but all what was going was a 2,44mb floppy .... burned it, but it crashed while booting ..

can you help me finding the boot-load-size???

furthermore i found this:

The '-boot-load-size' option gives the number of 512-byte sectors to load from the boot image. This should be a multiple of 4. Our examples here are small, so 2048 bytes are fine.

my "isolinux.bin"-file is 16kb so i would have 4096bytes ... so the availible boot-load-size should be 4096:512=8 but this size is not working too ...


thanks for help,
Sile

Hello Silenoz,

and welcome to the PlanetAMD64.

I never tryed to make out of the CDs a DVD, so I wont be much of a help to you, but I can give you a Link from Iz about HOWTO make a DVD out of CDs:

SUSE Linux 10.x x64

Under the pics is "Usefull things", and there is the Link Making a DVD from CDs in English.
Maybe it can help you.

Aries

thx aries

but once again:

# mkisofs -v -V SU100OSS.001 -r -J -l -L -P "SuSE Linux AG" \
-b "boot/loader/isolinux.bin" \
-c "boot/loader/boot.cat" \
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
-graft-points -o /tmp/openSuSE-10.0-beta2-DVD.iso \
/tmp/sl10b2dvd

-boot-load-size 4 ... perhaps it works in linux, but im still using winxp 32bit

i think i shoul dl the eval-dvd ... or should i dl only the open source version dvd?
which version would you prefer if im just beginning with linux?

Yes you are right. It works in Linux (the one from Iz).

I'm always Downloading the DVD, so I don't think about making DVD out of CDs. I have now about 150 DVDs and CDs from all Linux x64 in a big CD/DVD case and I don't mind.

The only now available is the Eval version. The OSS is now nowhere to find. I looked yesterday night and this whole morning, but still nothing. W'll still have to wait and be patient. I'm now Downloading the Eval-DVD. Here you can find all the Links:

Suse 10.0 Release Watch, Is it in the servers yet? (Posts# 13 + 14)

I personaly tend to OSS, but if I'm honest, I don't care.

Aries

BTW, maybe Iz or TomCat_Ri will come by and give you the right tip.

That would be great

im going to dl the eval version too, found this at novell's page:

"SUSE Linux 10.0 Eval version

Alternatively, download the Eval DVD ISO image. It includes an installable evaluation version that can be later upgraded to the complete product. "


so i can have the complete version, after it is released

With SUSE Linux you can do that without any problems. I'm going to do the same (or doing now).

Aries

BTW, I'm now still trying with Pyr0 to find out what's realy with the OSS version and we can't find any right Downloads.

read about that

maybe u can write a mail to the supporter to get infos ^^

officially the final version should be downloadable or ?!?

but before changing to linux i must get a working wlan-card (look at the linux hardware forum) otherwise i would have no internet ....

ah found my mistake ... i left a space in front of a command so the prog didn't perform "-no-emul-boot" thats why trhe mistake came

It's good that you dicovered it. Did it work now?

Aries

the iso is ready later im going to burn it ^^

what do you mean, should i dl the newest version or is this rc1 version good enough?

I think the best will be like Iz says, get the Eval (it's 180 days and longer) and in Feb 2006 is coming 10.1 RC1 and everything is begining from the start.
The Eval has almost everything what you need. More important is, have fun and enjoy it.

Aries

Silenoz

Vielleicht kann Ich Sie hilfen.(perhaps I can help you for those who don't speak
German)
I think what mkisofs is complaining about is it thinks that you are trying to
make a CD and so it might be complaining about the size of the image(DVD image) file that you want to create. I use growisofs when I want to make burn a
DVD. I haven't burned any bootable DVD's but for burning data directly to DVD
I would use

growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -r -root DIRNAME -max-iso9660-filenames -input-charset iso8859-1 -allow-lowercase -new-dir-mode 0555 DIRNAME

as long as your dvd burner is at /dev/scd0 the above will burn the contents of
DIRNAME to DVD.
For now try adding the following to the end of your mkisofs command:

| builtin_dd of=g: obs=32k seek=0

The above will pipe the mkisofs output directly to a dvd in your burner. I suggest
that you use a dvd+rw in case this doesnt work. Based on the obs=32k above
I am guessing the boot-load-size should be 32k/0.5k = 64 for a DVD.
Perhaps you should rerun your mkisofs and use boot-load-size 64 ?

flowguy

THX for this info flowguy.

Aries

I enjoy giving help, Aries. In a separate topic I'm going to upload
a shell script I wrote which lets you easily burn a new DVD+RW
or append data to a DVD+RW directly, with whatever files
or directories you choose--directly from the command line.

Oooohhhh. thats great. THX.
And I will connect him than with our main review, so everybody can find it easyer.

Aries