On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 22:33 -0700, Patrick McMichael wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Been subscribed to the list for awhile now, am interested primarily in
> just running UNR on an old machine as a sort of under-powered test. I
> was wondering if anyone would be willing to point me in the right
> direction as to how to create a bootable CD out of the thumbdrive IMG
> file that I've downloaded. Mounting loopback here is not actually
> going to help as the tricky bit is actually writing the boot sector
> with the magic numbers to get the thing to boot.
>
> I'm not asking to hold my hand, but some pointers here would really
> help.
I'm not sure how to create an ISO image from it, but it is very easy to
copy this to a USB memory stick and make it bootable. Just type "dd
bs=1024 if=jaunty-netbook-remix-i386.img of=/dev/<usb device>" (where
<usb device> is sda, sdb, etc - do not write it to any partition, use
the full device).
The img file is a vfat (fat32) image with a bootsector to load syslinux.
To make an ISO, you would first need to run mkisofs to make an ISO image
file, then mount both the ISO and the img file in loop and copy all of
the data over. Then, make sure that isolinux is on the new ISO image.
I don't know the exact steps for that, but a 2G USB drive costs $10-$15
and is much faster and easier.
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