On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:23:06 -0500 Mike Rambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe I'm just dense but how the heck do you create a > bootable CD these days. I'm need to make a bootable restore > CD for our public safety department. I want to put their > computer hard drive image on it and have it boot from the CD > and start imaging automatically. I have the hard drive > image file. I have the boot floppy image. I can't get it all > onto a CD successfully. I now have two coasters which have a > perfect copy of the hard drive image file but the stinking > CD's won't boot. The computer boots from other CD's just > fine. > > I'm using a 8.1 system now and have tried xcdroast, > eroaster, gcombust, and mkisofs from the CLI to no avail. > All of them complain that they can't find either the boot > image or the boot.catalog file. I have tried placing the > floppy image everywhere I can think of and it has > permissions that would allow everyone from Charles Manson to > the Pope to read it. This is frustrating because my old > system (7.1) with kisocd just worked by giving it a file > name and location. Unfortunately kisocd is no longer > supported it would appear. > > README.eltorito says that the boot.catalog file will be > automatically created but doesn't say where. It also speaks > of the boot image but doesn't say where it needs to be. > Absolute paths don't find it which is totally confusing. The > CD-writing howto on LDP just points to the README.eltorito > file included with mkisofs. > > What is the magic step here to make this work? > > Thanks. > > > -- > Mike Rambo > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > i assume that the files and directories from which to create your iso image are in a directory named to_be_burnt. and you're creating an iso image in ~/burn first: create iso image like this cd to_be_burnt mkisofs -v -r -T -J -pad -b boot_image -c boot.catalog -o ~/burn/image.iso . then cd ~/burn cdrecord -v speed=? dev=?,?,? image.iso replace ? with appropriate values boot_image is the image from which the cd will boot. it has to be in the cd! give the path from where you're creating iso. bye jipe
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