The 03.10.24 at 01:19, Thinker wrote:
How do I create this ISO image on the Mandrake machine?
Many ways... it depends on what you have. Let me see: mkisofs -R -quiet -graft-points\ -P "Not Published, private backup" \ -p "My name, my address at host my host dot dom" \ -V "System Backup, Linux" \ -o path_of_image_file_to_create \ path_of_directory_to_backup \ new_name=/real_path_of_some_dir_to_copy You can add more lines as the last one; it is used to change the path where it will appear on the CD to one different from the original. Look up the man page for more options. You can test (mount) the image: mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop1 ISOIMAGE /mnt And see if that is what you wanted. Beware not to make it bigger than 700 Mb or whatever your writer allows. It is possible to create compressed images, but they will not be readable in windows, only in linux - and I don't know if mandrake has the patch enabled for that. In any case, it is a bit tedious to create them. If you want to go that road, I'll explain. You can even use some graphical tool like xcdroast to create the image, even if you don't have a writer on that machine. One of the steps of burning a CD is create the image first, so it should work even if you don't have a burner. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson