How to create a live Linux DVD from the Fedora CD ISO images
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If you have access to the Fedora ISO CDs (or have the CDs), you may want to create a DVD so that you don't switch disks during installation. This is very convenient if you have a DVD and you install a large number of packages (chances are you will do that if you are a beginner and want to try just about everything).
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Procedure
You will need the Fedora CD ISO images for this, or the Fedora CDs themselves. If you have the ISO images, you will need a program that can open them, like UltraISO. The operation goes as following:
- Extract all files from Disc 2 onwards into subfolders named Disc2, Disc3 and so on. These subfolders are to be created under the folder that contains the ISO images themselves.
- Now open the ISO image of the first CD (create it if you don't have it). Double click the file \Fedora\RPMS\TRANSL.TBL. It will open in Notepad, or give you a list of programs you can open it with, a case in which you should choose Notepad. Now open the files in \Fedora\RMPS\TRANS.TBL that you will find in the subfolders you have created during the first step.
- Copy the list in each of the TRANS.TBL files in the subfolders to the TRANS.TBL of the first Fedora disc. Now save this TRANS.TBL in the directory where all the ISO images are saved.
- Now, copy all the RPM files you will find in the subfolders from the first step to the ISO of the first CD. Also copy the TRANS.TBL you have saved above over the one in the first CD's ISO, answering 'Yes' when asked if you want to overwrite the old file.
- Now edit the file .idiscinfo on the first CD's ISO. Replace line 4 (which reads "1") with "1,2,3,4". Save it, and then copy it past the original file on the first CD.
- If you have done everything correctly, you will be able to change the size of the first CD's image and write it to a DVD. It should boot correctly.