Have a look at 'isolinux' (http://syslinux.zytor.com/), which is a version of the really good syslinux. It makes it possible to create a bootable CD-ROM with the help of an initial ramdisk (the same way as with syslinux and a boot floppy) but WITHOUT the constraint of a 1.44M size. So you really are free to make a ramdisk of your own personal settings. You can create the CD using ordinary mkisofs/cdrecord and it works great! Harry

-----Original Message----- From: Mike [SMTP:bcomber@freezer-burn.org] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:59 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] bootable CD's

Hi,

I'm trying to create a bootable CD for Windows. I know I need to create an

image of a bootable floppy for this. No problem. I did a dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img. That created the image of a bootable floppy.

Now I try to get it burned onto a CD. I've tried both Xcdroast and mkisofs

from the command line. No luck. Most of the time it tells me that it can't

find the boot.img file. But it is there, and it is the right size. I'm missing something quite simple but can't figure it out. The man page is of

little or no help other than giving the -b eltorito_img_file command. no examples to be found on the page at all.

Does anyone know how to do this?

TIA

Mike -- Powered by SuSE 7.3 Kernel 2.4.16 KDE 2.2.2 Kmail 1.3.2 For a great linux portal try http://www.freezer-burn.org 8:53pm up 1 day, 11:53, 4 users, load average: 1.91, 1.95, 1.88

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