On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:32:24PM -0500, Steve Kleiser wrote: > So does that mean the official CD images are not bootable? >
They are (or should be, if they are not its a bug). You need to burn them in burn image mode. The notes were mostly in case you want to make changes on the CD. > ----- 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] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
