Bootable CD for installation
I have a SuSE 8.1 image as a tarball. Right now I have a floppy from the cluclo project that I boot, it mounts /lib, /bin etc. off our main server and then partitions, formats, mounts and restores on the target machine. I would like to make a CD-ROM that I can boot so I don't need to mount the dirs from the main server. I have a minimum install of the OS set to boot at init level 1. I can burn this to CD but I am struggling with the boot concept. How to I make the CD boot and run the OS on the CD? I have tried using the b option to mkisofs with a boot disk image from the installation CD, but that image insists on inserting a modules floppy. I am glad to RTFM if some kind sole will point me in the right direction. I am obviously missing some core concept in the boot process. -- Greg Engel
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:21:35 -0500 Greg Engel <genge1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
Right now I have a floppy from the cluclo project that I boot, it mounts /lib, /bin etc. off our main server and then partitions, formats, mounts and restores on the target machine.
I would like to make a CD-ROM that I can boot so I don't need to mount the dirs from the main server.
I have a minimum install of the OS set to boot at init level 1. I can burn this to CD but I am struggling with the boot concept.
How to I make the CD boot and run the OS on the CD? I have tried using the b option to mkisofs with a boot disk image from the installation CD, but that image insists on inserting a modules floppy.
Go to http://mkcdrec.ota.be/ and get mkcdrec. It is a backup solution, but it has an option to make just a bootable cd customized to your system. It uses a kernel of your choice and you can add as many utilities as you like. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
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