Tzafrir Cohen
Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:20:03 -0700
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, mulix wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Shahar Dag wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Can one create his own Linux boot CD to match his computer & needs? > > yup, and unless i'm mistaken, eli gave a lecture on it. > yup - http://linuxclub.il.eu.org/lectures/26 A few CD-spesific notes to add (I believe this was not covered in that lecture, which was about floppies) a bootable CD boots in a wierd way. You might have expected it to simply boot like a hard disk and a floppy, but then it wouldn't be fun :( Generally when the systems boots up from a CD, it will not be able to use the whole CD. Rather, it considers the CD as a floppy disk. Therefore that floppy disk can have at most 2880 kB. This is the "El-Torito" extension of the standard (ATAPI? don't remember which exactly) to allow booting from a CD. The documentation should probably cover that better... I recall that at least one or two of the "rescue CD" distros are intended actually for you to create a custom rescue CD. All the others can be tweaked as well: simply mount the image and edit it before you burn it. This is actually in the lines of the rescue floppy lecture. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir