Making a back-up CD of Slackware 9.1 and Fedora

[Goran]

1. PLEASE tell me how to make an EXACT SAME cd of Slackware 9.1 and Fedora Core 1 for back-up purposes.
If you know how it should be copied from linux and from windows it would be perfect.
If not linux will be ok.

I tried making a copy of Fedora with the commands :

mkisofs -o /c/fedora.iso -R -J -V "LXFCD49a" -v -d -D -L -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table
-b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/isolinux.boot -A "Fedora Core 1" /c/fedora1

cdrecord -eject -v speed=4 dev=3,0,0 /c/fedora.iso

And an iso file is built and written to a cd. The cd boots, I press enter, it loads vmlinuz and
and another img file, and then shows an error:


--Installation Halted

and some illegal pack type err=1 or something.
I restart the computer, it boots again from the CD and LOADS the files OK. So it continues working until
I get a messaage Kernel system panic !

I don't remember how I backed-up Slackware 9.1 (the exact commands) but it behaves the same way as
Fedora.

2. The instructions for making a copy of the Slackware 9.1 cd located on the cd say:

mkisofs -o /tmp/slackware.iso \
-R -J -V "Slackware Install" \
-x ./bootdisks \
-x ./extra \
-x ./slackware/gnome \
-x ./pasture \
-x ./rootdisks \
-x ./source \
-x ./zipslack \
-hide-rr-moved \
-v -d -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
-sort isolinux/iso.sort \
-b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
-c isolinux/isolinux.boot \
-A "Slackware Install CD" .

Then use 'cdrecord' to burn it. (See 'man cdrecord')
I don't think this would work because the cd is joliet mode also.


Thank You very much for helping !

[Dolda2000]

If I understand you correctly, you want a copy of the installation CD, right? Then, why don't you just download it again and burn it?

[Opnosforatou]

I got the feeling he wants to make a custom, unattended install cd.
Or a 'Boot Linux from CD' a la .... what was the name of that distro again...
That would be perfect, it is one of the things on my to do list...
One of many...

But to answer the question.
I don't know...

[Goran]

I would download it gladly, but I have a modem connection which works at a 2kb/s rate at the most. No cable modem, no satelite link, nothing I got a linux CD drom a friend and that is how I got here. Internet access is in a very bad shape here. Anyway...
I couldn't install Fedora because of corrupted memory. The backup CDs were burned OK. If you have an error 2 or checksum error during the installation - iti is probably bad memory. I switched the module and everything went OK.

[kriss]

I think that if you got a checksum error, the problem is that the iso files you used to burn the CD with was corrupted, so you have to re-get the iso images.

Good luck

[gogetter]

I read the reply that suggested that a completely automated install CD might be desired. That is what I want. I have done it before, but forgot how.

I think I put my boot: command in a file on my new disk in the %post area of kickstart, and somehow read it at the boot: command. Not sure how I did it or which section of kickstart I put my command.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Any help is much appreciated.

--gogetter

[gogetter]

I'm a newbe here, don't know if my post took or not.