THe answer is yes that is more or less what I have done. I will try the 2.88 version and see what happens. Yes my system boots from cdrom. Although I agree the note is worth it. The main reason for doing this is that this is an experimental box and I blow things up fairly often while playing and need to reinstall averything (no half measures here) :) and my wife is tired of having to help with the install. I could do it from floppy but I either get too boot from cd or floppy first and I prefer to keep the cd first if I can. Thanks Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Csercsics" <kajarii@xxxxxxxxx> To: <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 14:37 Subject: Re: creating a bootable cd > The way that I assume you're doing this is something like the following: > You have a vanilla Debian CD. You have found the root disk image and modified it so that brltty is on that image. You then put the root disk back in it's place on the cd image. The Debian cD the last time I fiddled with it used a 2.88 MB floppy (which has the root filesystem "rootb.in" that you've hacked with BRLTTY as well as the rescue.bin floppy.) so all you should need to do is tell your CD-Writing software you want it to emulate a 2.88 MB floppy and assuming that everything else is configured correctly on the CD image then it should boot as expected and you should get BRLTTY. It's worth pointing out here that you need to make sure that your BIOS is capable of booting from a CD and that the CD drive you wish to boot from appears somewhere in yoru boot sequence before the hard disk. If all of that is true then you should be able to boot your CD just fine. > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list