Thanks very much, again Tom. Just in case anyone would like more details, this is what I actually did based on your suggestion. I didn't know what you meant, at first, by "You can put whtaever 650 MB you want." Then I understood, If you are going to burn a bootable tomsrtbt CD, you might as well put some other data on the CD too! It costs no more, only a little time.
Here are the details 1. Unzipped the cd-rom version of tomsrtbt. I got a file called tomsrtbt-1.7.366.ElTorito.288.img. I put that file in a convenient directory on my Linux-Mandrake 7.2 system. 2. Added a new subdirectory under that named "empty" 3. Added some other data to the subdirectory named "empty." 4. From the command line, entered (per Tom's suggestion): mkisofs -b tomsrtbt-1.7.366.ElTorito.288.img -o boot.catalog -o toms.iso empty/* The program (mkisofs) ran a couple of minutes as it made the iso image complete with the 200 MB of added data. 5. Copied "toms.iso" over to my windows partition where I used Easy CD Creator (4) and burned the ISO image. Tried it on two machines and it works fine. Now, Tom, just one more question. We all know how to mount devices like floppies (/dev/fd0) or hard drives (/dev/hda1), etc. Is there an easy way to access a standard IDE CD-ROM drive from tomsrtbt. Thanks, again Bob --- Tom Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Something like: > > mkisofs -b boot.img -c boot.catalog -o image.iso > files/path/* > > You can put whatever 650 megabytes you want in > files/path/*/whatever. > > -Tom > > On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Robert Foster wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:08:59 -0800 (PST) > > From: Robert Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [tomsrtbt] Bootable CD > > > > 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 > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > > http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
