I looked at the Debian web site and on the Debian distribution disks. I did not find anything on the web site. I found some possibilities on the disks but the ones on the first three disks were .deb files. There appear to be some possibilities on the source disks but I don't have a way of compiling them and I am not really sure what I should look for. I looked for cd*.* and found something like cdao, cdread cdwrite and cdrecord. I think that is what they were. I am not sure what I should be looking for or how to get executables for them. The source files are compressed but I think I can handle themwith WINZIP if I know which ones to expand. I can try to expand them all but if someone knows what I need, it could save me a lot of time digging through the documentation if there is any available. It appears that the boot image is not findable as a file on the CD either so it looks like I need to read the boot image through some other mechanism and I am not sure that any of those programs are what I need to to that. I would appreciate any suggestions. Enjoy! Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk@xxxxxxxxx> To: "speakup-info" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:25 PM Subject: Re: not working yet > There is a program distributed by Debian for just for the purpose of > making bootable debian CDs. I would suggest you start there. It is > available in both Winblows and Linux (I believe). That would probably be > the place to start. I wouldn not imagine it too hard to sub the bootable > image. > > For those not aware of how a CD boots: > The BIOS reads a bianary image of a bootable floppy disk saved in the > first file position on the disk. For the duration of the boot this is > treated as the first floppy drive (A: for winblows, /dev/fd0 for > Linux). It should stay as such until either the CD or the floppy is > changed. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > Cluelessness > There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of > inquisitive idiots > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
