how to re-package with mkisofs

[bug_juice]

Hi,

     I'm trying to build a bootable ESXi 5.0 with a static IP in it because i have subnets that do not have PXE available to them.  I've been able to do this with ESXi 4.1, but ESXi 5.0 does not seem to work.  On ESXi 5.0 at this point i just want  to mount the ESXi 5.0 ISO file, copy the  files out of  it, then package  it back up with mkisofs, but obviously  I'm doing something wrong with  mkisofs.  I've been doing the following:

• mount -o loop /root/esxi.5.0.iso /mnt; cd /mnt
• rsync -a /tmp; cd /tmp/mnt
• mkisofs -l -J -R -r -T -o /tmp/newesxi.5.0.iso -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table .
• mount and boot from vmware workstation virtual cdrom

When i try to boot this newesxi.5.0.iso file, I get to the grub menu ok,  then i see "/ata-pata.v00: file not found."  Any light anyone can shine on this would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[continuum]

on windows I use a similar command
just with the additional option -input-charset utf-8

are you sure your isolinux.cfg and boot.cfg are ok ?

[bug_juice]

utf-8 doesn't seem to be an option with my "mkisofs" on my solaris server.  "mkisofs" kicked back some known charsets, but none of them look close to utf-8.

As for my isolinux.cfg and boot.cfg, i'm not doing anything to them so i would think they should be ok.  All I'm trying to do at this point is just copy the contents out of the iso file and then build it back into an iso before i do anything.

maybe i'll try this on windows or linux and see if mkisofs does something different there.

[continuum]

try mkisofs.exe from the cdrtools
cdrtools can be found in google ...

this command works here:

bin\cdrtools\mkisofs.exe -quiet -l -no-iso-translate -sysid "" -A "esxi50-live" -V esxi50-live -c BOOT.CAT -b ISOLINUX.BIN -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -input-charset utf-8  -o temp/esxi50-live.iso files-esxi50

[bug_juice]

It was the "-no-iso-translate" that fixed it.

Thanks !!!