Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> When I
> create an ISO image CD, do I need to do anything special to make it
> bootable?
Not much, assuming the original iso was designed to be bootable.
If it was, then the main thing is to make sure that you "create" a CD
from the iso, rather than just burning a CD with a copy of the iso file
on it. In Adaptec's Easy CD Creator, you want to choose the option that
reads something like "Create CD from disk image", then you will get a
dialog to choose the disk image and you will have to switch from the
default so it looks for files with the .iso extension (instead of
Adaptec's "proprietary" image file extenstion).
Just for the sake of completeness, if the iso was not designed to be
bootable, there is a way to make it bootable as long as the iso would
not completely fill the CD but instead leave room for a boot image. You
would have to do something to convert the .iso to the files contained in
the iso (one way would be to burn a "throwaway" CD), then copy the files
and a boot image to a new iso image, and finally burn the bootable CD
from the new image.
Sorry I can't recite the steps for doing either of these for a Linux
program.
Randy Kramer
