On Mon Apr 01 2002 at 19:08, Robert Foster wrote:

> This must be about the oldest question yet. But could
> not find it in the archives.
> 
> I am trying to make a bootable CD. I have available
> W2K, W98, Linus-Mandrake 7.2. I have downloaded the
> ElTorito bz2. I have extracted the .img file.
> 
> I think that I need to convert the .img into an .iso
> with mkisofs

No, that's not what you need to do.

Put the ElTorito.img file _into_ the buildroot you are using for
your data cdrom, and use it as its boot image.  With mkisofs use "-b
ElTorito.img -c boot.cat" (or whatever, you really don't need to
worry about the -c parameter).  See the man page for mkisofs.

> Then I could use EZ CD creator and burn the CD image.
> However, I can't figure out the mkisofs command.
> I tried various things like mkisofs -b
> ...ElTorito.288.img
> It seems like the -o option should also be set, but
> can't figure it out.
> Anyone know how to make an iso bootable image from the
> .img file?
> Any other suggestions?
> TIA, Bob

Cheers
Tony

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