> Okay after looking through cdrwin.. I now understand what you mean.
>
> It asks for a "bootable floppy" image, which is exactly what you were
> talking about.
>
> I guess the problem is that if you've never made a bootable cd before you
> don't realize that cd's use bootable floppy images I had no clue that this
> was the case.
>
> Now I'm faced with another more benign problem, what the hell do I use the
> other 638 megs for?
Yes, well, the idea is, when you are creating various CDs, with various
sets of 638 megs, you can make them bootable. That is, it is not a
question of, 'I am making a tomsrtbt CD, what goes in the filesystem',
rather, it is, 'I am making a fondue-photography CD, I might as well make
it bootable'. The idea is that it is painless to just make all CDs have
tomsrtbt boot sectors.
> Not that it matters, but It would be nice to have a huge set of tools to be
> able to mount if I needed them..
I agree, but, there are _other_ distributions that provide a CD based full
toolkit- such as the bootable business card, and some other stuff called
rescue-cd or cd-rescue or some such. My bootable CD capability is just a
side affect.
-Tom
