So does that mean the official CD images are not bootable? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alvin Oga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Micha Feigin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 8:53 PM Subject: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?
> > hi ya > > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > Its not enough to copy all the files to the cd (which is probably what > > you did if you burned it in data mode). You need to make the cd > > bootable by burning a basic system and marking where to find those > > files. > > yup.. > > a bootable cdrom will have /syslinux installed and you'd probably > want to tweek the rc files and initrd into whatever the cd will be > doing > > its simplest to take an existing bootable cdrom, > - disasemble it > ( mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 $ISO /mnt/cdrom ) > $ISO is your cdrom or an *.iso image > - replace or insert what you want ... > - tweek what you want ( the fun part ) > - remove the junk > - remake the new bootable *.iso image ( mkisofs ) > > - magic > > c ya > alvin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
