HOWTO Build a Bootable DVD from the SIMP tarball

SIMP is an overlay on top of Enterprise Linux, not a complete distribution. As such, you must build a bootable DVD if provided with the SIMP source code or tar file following the steps below.

Build the DVD

The table below lists the steps to build a SIMP DVD, assuming that you have copied the DVD to a location with enough space to house and unpack the ISO (around 10G).

Starting from the directory with the ISO, complete the steps outlined below. These steps are based on an example ISO of rhel-server-6.7-x86_64-dvd.iso.

  1. Type
for file in `isoinfo -Rf -i rhel-server-6.7-x86_64-dvd.iso | \
  tac`; do mkdir -p RHEL6.7-x86_64`dirname $file`; \
  isoinfo -R -x $file -i rhel-server-6.7-x86_64-dvd.iso > RHEL6.7-x86_64$file; done
  1. Type tar -C RHEL6.7-x86_64 -xzf ***<SIMP tarball>***
  2. Type
mkisofs -o SIMP-6.7-***<SIMP Version>-x86_64.iso \***
  -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
  -boot-info-table -R -m TRANS.TBL -uid 0 -gid 0 RHEL6.7-x86_64

The fully bootable SIMP DVD is ready to install on a new system. Replace the RHEL version and architecture to fit the user’s needs. See the Changelog for compatible RHEL versions.

Use the Alternative Method

If the Ruby rake utility is installed, use the Rakefile provided in the Docs/examples directory of the tar file.