On Wednesday 12 February 2003 2:28 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.02.10 at 15:25, Nick LeRoy wrote:
new files, and then create the new image. I'm not sure how to handle the bootable part, though.
Do a 'man mkisofs' for more information on making a bootable CD image.
I read that ages ago. Most man pages are not a guide on how to do things, just a list of options and syntax; and the mkisofs man page is one of those.
I have to sadly reckon that I have only created a bootable CD, and it was in windows. I only had to create a boot floppy, tell nero to use it, and voilá! I'll have a look at what xcdroast has to offer, but I still do not know how to make a bootable CD, one as good as the SuSE rescue system, but customized to my likings.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Carlos...
From the CD-Writing HOWTO:
4.11 How to make bootable CD-ROMs? You must have an 1.44 MB bootable floppy-disk. Create an exact image of this floppy-disk by issuing the command dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img bs=18k Place this floppy image into the directory holding the collection of your files (or into a subdirectory of it, just as you like). Tell mkisofs about this file with the option '-b' and also use '-c'. For details read the file README.eltorito in the mkisofs-distribution. An interesting application for a custom bootable CD is as a virus safe DOS- or Windows-system. It saves you the money for the hard disks (if you have a network and use samba to put the user-data on a file server). The German computer magazine c't has a article about this issue in the issue 11/99, page 206 ( http://www.heise.de/). Some details about the bootable RedHat CD-ROM is available from http://members.bellatlantic.net/~smithrod/rhjol-technical.html. -Nick