how to make a cd bootable

how to make a cd bootable

[Saqib Shaikh]

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hi,

could someone please tell me how i can mkae a cd bootable. is it true i can just put the file rescue.bin from the debian floppy set into /boot on the cd and it'll automaticaly becomde bootable; this seems slightly odd if you don't have to do anything else.

tia, saqib


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Re: how to make a cd bootable

[Janina Sajka]

No, it's almost that simple, though. Check the documentation for mkisofs. 
Basically, you need to flag the file to be booted with the -b switch -- 
and should also specify the -c switch.
 On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Saqib Shaikh 
wrote:

> hi,
> 
> could someone please tell me how i can mkae a cd bootable. is it true i can just put the file rescue.bin from the debian floppy set into /boot on the cd and it'll automaticaly becomde bootable; this seems slightly odd if you don't have to do anything else.
> 
> tia, saqib
> 
> 

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Re: how to make a cd bootable

[Gregory Nowak]

Say you want to put all boot files
into /boot/ relative to the cd tree. Also, I'll assume that your boot
floppy image is rescue.bin.
So given the above, this is how you'd envoke mkisofs:
"mkisofs -b boot/rescue.bin -c boot/boot.catalog ", and so on. Note that the boot/boot.catalog file noted with the
-c flag is manditory, however, mkisofs will create it automagically.
Hth.
Greg



On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:15:17PM +0100, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> hi,
> 
> could someone please tell me how i can mkae a cd bootable. is it true i can just put the file rescue.bin from the debian floppy set into /boot on the cd and it'll automaticaly becomde bootable; this seems slightly odd if you don't have to do anything else.
> 
> tia, saqib
>