On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:51:12AM +0100, Wayne Scace wrote:
>                 Hi Gang,
>         Wayne K9DI es Leader Dog Sequoia here.  Yes, the lone member of 
> Eug-LUG to reside in Illinois.  I have a couple of quick questions for the 
> group:
>         1.)  What are the commands to burn a bootable CD-r under Redhat 
> Linux 7.3 using cdrecord?  A friend and I are both beating our heads 
> against this one.  We've tried reading man pages and seem no closer to 
> burning one.

First, cdrecord does not control whether or not an image is bootable;
that's done with mkisofs.  Are you having trouble creating an ISO9660
image, or are you having trouble getting a "known good" ISO9660 image
onto disc?  If you're making the image yourself, I have a good idea
where you may be going wrong, as it is a common mistake.  The boot
image is specified as relative to one of the included directories.
For example,

$ ls /pub/OpenBSD/3.2/i386
bsd             base32.tgz      cdrom32.fs      comp32.tgz      game32.tgz
man32.tgz       misc32.tgz
$ mkisofs -r -l -o obsd32.iso -b 3.2/i386/cdrom32.fs /pub/OpenBSD

In this case, the boot image (as specified by '-b') is at
/pub/OpenBSD/3.2/i386/cdrom32.fs.  I specified '3.2/i386/cdrom32.fs'
because '/pub/OpenBSD' is listed as a source directory.

>         2.)  Would any of you be willing to burn copies of the latest 
> iteration of FreeBSD onto CD-r's and snailmail them to me?  I would do so 
> myself, but am back on a <gasp> dial-up setup until November when Verizon 
> gets off their asses and bring DSL to Macomb (read BFE Illinois...LOL).

I can send you an OpenBSD 3.2-beta disk ;)

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