CentOS - Mar 2008 - how do I create a custom CD from an existing CD?

Hi all

This may sound funny, but I can't get onto any websites right now, so I 
can't even google. I want to customize the contents of my CentOS 5.1 x64 
CD, and re-create the ISO to write to CD again and install on a server. 
I know it's got something todo with mkisofs, but I'm not 100% sure what 
the commands should look like

Can someone please give me a sample of the whole command needed for such 
an operation?

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on 3-26-2008 3:49 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following:
> Hi all
> 
> This may sound funny, but I can't get onto any websites right now, so I
> can't even google. I want to customize the contents of my CentOS 5.1
x64
> CD, and re-create the ISO to write to CD again and install on a server. 
> I know it's got something todo with mkisofs, but I'm not 100% sure
what
> the commands should look like
> 
> Can someone please give me a sample of the whole command needed for such 
> an operation?
> 
Depending on what you want to change, it is more involved than that.
Are you trying to customize packages or something else?


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Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3-26-2008 3:49 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following:
>> Hi all
>>
>> This may sound funny, but I can't get onto any websites right now,
so
>> I can't even google. I want to customize the contents of my CentOS 
>> 5.1 x64 CD, and re-create the ISO to write to CD again and install on 
>> a server. I know it's got something todo with mkisofs, but I'm
not
>> 100% sure what the commands should look like
>>
>> Can someone please give me a sample of the whole command needed for 
>> such an operation?
>>
> Depending on what you want to change, it is more involved than that.
> Are you trying to customize packages or something else?
>
>
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I actually remove some of the scripts, and use a custom kickstart file, 
but here it is: 
http://blog.softdux.com/everything-todo-with-linux/linux-howtos/hot-tips/how-to-create-custom-linux-iso-images.html
:)

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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
CEO, SoftDux

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Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other
technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 00:49 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> This may sound funny, but I can't get onto any websites right now, so I
> can't even google. I want to customize the contents of my CentOS 5.1
x64
> CD, and re-create the ISO to write to CD again and install on a server. 
> I know it's got something todo with mkisofs, but I'm not 100% sure
what
> the commands should look like
> 
> Can someone please give me a sample of the whole command needed for such 
> an operation?
> 
Check Revisor. I am currently using it to create a customized CD
install, kickstart enabled installation of Centos 5.1.

URL         : https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/revisor
Summary     : Fedora "Spin" Graphical User Interface
Description :
Revisor provides a set of graphical tools for building customized,
updated
Fedora "Spins". This tool has been built around two other projects.
First
is pungi, which builds the installation media. The other is
livecd-tools,
which builds the live image.

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