Quick items about repackaging Linux ISO

There are two topics I would like to describe here, for later reference (by myself, of course. This blog is my extended memory). The first is about how to create a bootable ISO out of RHEL extracted ISO, and the other is about how to download only specific update, or make your own RHEL updates on-prem mirror.

Bootable ISO

From within the (modified?) extracted ISO of RHEL7.x (in this example. Match settings to your needs), in order to be able to boot the ISO both in legacy and uEFI BIOS – you can run this command:

genisoimage -J -T -o ../RHEL-7.9_`date +%F_%H-%M-%S`.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -J -R -l -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -eltorito-alt-boot -e images/efiboot.img -no-emul-boot -graft-points -V "RHEL-7.9 Server.x86_64" .

Create a local mirror of RHEL packages

This is a long one, so I will leave only a link to RedHat’s article about it. I hope you have access (you should, if you want to mirror their repository). If you don’t – it’s easy and free to open an account (even without subscribed systems), so you’ll have access to their articles. The article can be found here