On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Mike R. Cannon wrote:
> Carsten Neumann wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Mike R. Cannon wrote:
> > > Copying a bootable cdrom.
> > >
> > > I have a cdrom that I am trying to copy. It is a bootable cdrom. I can
> > > make a copy of it, but I can't boot off of it. I am assuming that I
> > > need to do something different in the mkisofs command. I even tried to
> > > to point the iso creation process at /dev/hda, but that did not work
> > > either.
> >
> > I can't understand what's your problem.
> >
> > Why do you use mkisofs at all?
> > The data on the original cdrom is an ISO9660 image, isn't it?
> >
> > So if you can boot the original CD you will be able to boot a copy of it.
>
> Well the mkisofs didn't work! I'm not an expert but as I understand it:
Could you please explain why you want to use mkisofs at all?
What I understood from your 1st mail is that you want to make a simple copy of it.
I.e.: simply write the data from the original CD to a blank CD-R.
If you want to make changes to the file system, e.g. add/replace/change/delete files
you need of course to make a new iso-image via mkisofs.
For all these cases there are README files in the cdrtools package.
So, please RTFM.
> When you mount a cdrom you can't/don't see the boot information.
> Therefore when making an iso, you don't get the boot information.
>
> I ended up using xdxroast, thank someone for that.
>
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Carsten
Kind regards
Carsten
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