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I was wondering if I can create a single ISO image by cating two DVD ISO images together.
I have heard that this only works if the ISO is split into different parts and not two distinct ISO images, is this true? I'm looking to combine both DVD 1 and 2 for the CentOS 6 install since they don't provide a single file
You can't cat the two CentOS 6 ISOs together and get the combined version of them. cat them would work if they had been split from one big ISO file, but they're two distinct ISOs created separate from one another.
If you're looking to combine the two DVDs in to one use the mkdvdiso.sh script from here and run it on a directory that contains the DVD1 and DVD2 ISOs. The script only refers to CentOS 4 and 5, but I just tested it on CentOS 6 and it works fine.
This may help you:
mount -o loop image1.iso /path/to/mountpoint/1
mount -o loop image2.iso /path/to/mountpoint/2
mkisofs -o image.iso /path/to/mountpoint/1 /path/to/mountpoint/2
