On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Mike Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:- >Hi all. > >I'm re-posting this since I'm still spinning my wheels trying to get it to >work. > >I'm trying to build a custom install CD, but I just can't get the resulting >disk to boot. I want to be able to put a disk in a system, boot the system >and come back to a fully configured machine.
Does it have to be a CD, or would you be able to work with a DVD instead? A DVD would be much more in keeping with the "insert disc, walk away, come back to fully working system" desire so, if you can use a DVD, check out makeSUSEdvd. <Snip> >After saving the new .iso file, I burn with it with k3b. > >The resulting CD won't boot. My guess would be that kiso doesn't know how to recreate the necessary bits to make the resultant image bootable. >Now, when I burn the iso image without making any changes, that CD will boot. >But as soon as I make a change, to control.xml for example, the resulting CD >won't boot. It certainly looks like kiso can't recreate a bootable image. >Any ideas? Extract the contents of the CD to a directory on your hard drive, make the changes required, then create a bootable CD using the directory as a source. All this can be done with makeSUSEdvd. You might find this useful: <URL:http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs> and possibly this: <URL:http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_SUSE_based_distribution> Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ RISCOS 3.11 | SUSE 10.0 32bit | SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit RISCOS 3.6 | SUSE 10.0 64bit | SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit TOS 4.02 | SUSE 9.3 32bit | | openSUSE 10.3a2 32bit -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
