Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
I want to make my own bootable dos CD. My current attempts using K3b
under Suse make bootable cd's but I can not then access the additional
files.
1) What am I doing wrong?
You may not be adding the boot image and the boot catalog to the ISO9660
image. Say you have everything you want in a directory MYDOSCD. Here's
how I would do it under Fedora Core 2.
1) Make a bootable floppy with all the drivers you will need at boot
time. (I use SHSUCDX for the CD extension plus free ASPI drivers - you
can check if everything works by booting from the floppy).
2) Mount the DOS partition where your contents are, put the floppy in
the drive and create the boot image from the floppy.
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
cd /mnt/dos/mydoscd
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=image/boot.img
(make sure you have a directory MYDOSCD\IMAGE)
3) Create the ISO9660 image.
mkisofs -b image/boot.img -c boot.cat -A FreeDOS \
-o /mnt/dos/mycdimag -P 'My DOS CD' \
-p C_Spitzer -r -V DOSCD -v .
4) Change to the image directory and write the CD.
cd ..
cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdc mycdimag
Note that I have left a lot of things that are specific to my system
like /dev/hdc is the CD burner and /dev/hda1 is my DOS partition.
Jim
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