Building a Bootable DVD from the SIMP tarball¶
SIMP is an overlay on top of RHEL, not a complete distribution. As such, the user must build a bootable DVD if provided with the SIMP source code or tar file.
To build a bootable SIMP DVD, if provided a RHEL DVD and the SIMP tar file, follow the steps in the sections below.
Build the DVD¶
The table below lists the steps to build a SIMP DVD, assuming that the user has 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
.
- 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
- Type
tar -C RHEL6.7-x86_64 -xzf ***<SIMP tarball>***
- 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
Table: Build a SIMP DVD Procedure
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.