On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 11:48:14 -0400 Chuck Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Experts, > > I have a cooker machine, a laptop, that I want to make a fresh > install on, but there is a problem, it has no floppy drive. > Rather than make a set of CDs, I want to put the hd.image on a > cdr, and boot that. The laptop is running a stale cooker > distribution, and has a current mirror, but has nearly 500 stale > packages installed. I am not a cdrecord ninja, and when I tried > to make the bootable disc with xcdroast, I failed even though I > told it to make a bootable cd with the hd.img boot disk image. > > Has anyone a clue how, or even if, this can be done? > > THanks! > > -Chuck Chuck, Just tried this out and it worked. mkdir and copy hd.img to that dir. The cd to that directory. At the prompt type mkisofs -r -b hd.img -c boot.cat -o hdboot.iso . the -b means to make this the boot image the -c means create the boot catalog for this disk the -o means create an iso with this name the trailing dot is needed because it means read from right here. then at the prompt as root cdrecord -v speed=16 dev=0,0,0 -data hdboot.iso in about 2 seconds you have a cd that boots looking for the rpms etc on a hdd partition. Note that speed and dev may change for your box in the above command. James
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