Hello Kurt, thanks for your reply. What I wanted to do is to pack all three disks: bootdisk modules1 modules2 on ONE cd. Most of my computers don't have floppy tapes but cdroms. I'm in need for a suse boot-cd that allows me to load the necessary modules for my nic and then run the ftp-installation. any ideas ? I think the limit of 2.88 megs is the problem..... It would be nice to select the harddrive-emulation and copy all files in a "harddrive" folder. So far no problem, but how can I copy the lilo boot-record on the cd ? Any ideas ? Thanks again for your help, Gunther -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Kurt Seifried [mailto:listuser@seifried.org] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2002 01:56 An: Gunther Stammwitz; suse-security@suse.com Betreff: Re: [suse-security] building boot cd boot cd's are essentially a kludge, there is a 1.44 or 2.88 meg file that the computer pretends is on floppy disk and boots from it, so you have it boot from the single floppy, and then load the others as needed. Kurt Seifried, kurt@seifried.org A15B BEE5 B391 B9AD B0EF AEB0 AD63 0B4E AD56 E574 http://www.seifried.org/security/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gunther Stammwitz" <gstammw@gmx.net> To: <suse-security@suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 4:59 PM Subject: [suse-security] building boot cd

Hello List,

I'd like to create a boot-cd that contains the three suse boot-disks: bootdisk,modules and modules2.

What's necessary in order to do that ?

Thanks a lot, Gunther

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Oops, repost to the list just in case it is usefull to anybody else. sorry Gunther, you got it twice. (grmblrememberuselistreply) On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:37:01PM +0100, Gunther Stammwitz wrote:

Most of my computers don't have floppy tapes but cdroms. I'm in need for a suse boot-cd that allows me to load the necessary modules for my nic and then run the ftp-installation.

dont the suse install CD1 do that? ok, yes, you have to do some choose from menu, press enter, ..., but it worked for me.(iirc)

any ideas ?

well, you could make your own diskimage with exactly those modules you need

I think the limit of 2.88 megs is the problem.....

It would be nice to select the harddrive-emulation and copy all files in a "harddrive" folder. So far no problem, but how can I copy the lilo boot-record on the cd ? Any ideas ?

use cdrecord -b you may find these links usefull: The Linux Bootdisk HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/ CD-Writing HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html the FAQs section in http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO/ howto make 2.88MB el torito floppy disk images http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/288.html a post with a script mkbimage for use with the grub boot loader. you could change it to use lilo if you prefer; I remember there where problems with root on LV whith other loaders than lilo when I last tried to do it... If you dont use LVM or they fixed it or I did it wrong ... just try it out. http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2001/debian-hurd-200110/msg00136.html I did not try hd-emulation myself, but If you combine the info from the above links you should be able to do it. probably the easy way is to make a boot image with ATAPI driver, do some sort of "intelligent" init script and load modules from CD. I wonder wy you wont use the suse CDs though. hope that helps, lars