You need a cdrom that is bootable. I have never been able to boot with an
ide cdrom drive, however, my plextor cdrom drives on my scsi bus are
bootable. I am in fact reminded often when I leave a linux cd in either
cdrom drive and reboot my system.
Tom Berkley
"Ronald L. Chichester" wrote:
> "Ronald L. Chichester" wrote:
>
> Okay folks, I figured out how to make a regular cd using mkisofs and
> cdrecord (still couldn't get any of the GUI routines to work correctly,
> but the command line routines are still available and still work).
>
> In any case, the last trick that I need is to get the install disk to
> act as a boot disk. Is there some special incantation with cdrecord
> that I need in order to make the install disk bootable? I DID read the
> man page for cdrecord, but it wasn't terribly enlightening. I presume
> that the image that needs to be booted is /boot/vmlinuz in the install
> CD. Question that I have (aside from making it a boot CD) is how to get
> it to boot that image.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ron
> ./.
>
> >
> > If I wanted to make a bit-for-bit copy of my (free) Mandrake 7.2 CD's
> > (install + extension), what would be the best program to use? Note, I
> > have an IDE CD (which would read the source) and a SCSI CD-R. I've
> > tried CDRecord, but it can't seem to find my IDE CD.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Ron
> > ./.
