mkisofs questions.

mkisofs questions.

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hi, list. I'm having some problems with mkisofs, and I was hoping someone 
could answer them for me.
I've got a friend who is on dialup like me, but wants to try Linux. I'm 
attempting to make Red Hat 9.0 iso images from my disks  with mkisofs 
and am 
ending up with 
many iso images that don't work properly like the ones you download do. 
For example my image for the disk 1 won't boot leaving me to believe I am 
not correctly creating the portion of the iso dealing with bootible 
options.
Another problem all the files and  directories with  capitals in them are 
coming out lowercase really making me scratch my head.
Can anyone shed some light on what I am doing wrong and what I need to 
pass to mkisofs to make a properly working iso image of the Linux cd set? 
Many thanks.

Re: mkisofs questions.

[Steve Holmes]

Actually, if you have working disks, why not just 'dd' them to an ISO
image on your drive and then use cdrecord to write them back.

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=disk.iso bs=1024k

This will copy an exact image of the CDROM; then just write the ISO
back to CD with cdrecord as pretty normal.  From what I've read so
far, making bootable CD's is a challenge at best when one doesn't know
quite what he is doing, like me:).

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 08:10:05AM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, list. I'm having some problems with mkisofs, and I was hoping someone 
> could answer them for me.
> I've got a friend who is on dialup like me, but wants to try Linux. I'm 
> attempting to make Red Hat 9.0 iso images from my disks  with mkisofs 
> and am 
> ending up with 
> many iso images that don't work properly like the ones you download do. 
> For example my image for the disk 1 won't boot leaving me to believe I am 
> not correctly creating the portion of the iso dealing with bootible 
> options.
> Another problem all the files and  directories with  capitals in them are 
> coming out lowercase really making me scratch my head.
> Can anyone shed some light on what I am doing wrong and what I need to 
> pass to mkisofs to make a properly working iso image of the Linux cd set? 
> Many thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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RE: mkisofs questions.

[Whitley GS11 Cecil H]

*snip*
>attempting to make Red Hat 9.0 iso images from my disks  with mkisofs 
>and am 
>ending up with 
>many iso images that don't work properly like the ones you download do. 
*snip*
Hi,
There is a good article on making a "mini distribution" titled "Self-hosting
movies with movix" on linux journal.  The url is:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6474
He gives step by step instructions as well as suggestions for how to do it
your own way.  Included of course is building bootable cd's.
Cecil