RE: Creating Bootable Installation CD

["Arjun Karkal Prabhu" <Arjun_Prabhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Message

 

hi all,

 

can anyone tell me how to create a bootable Installation CD ?

(i have the RH 8 cd 1 with me, which is not bootable..)

 

 

Any help / pointers would be of great help.

 

regards,
Arjun  

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: Arjun Karkal Prabhu
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 3:04 PM
To: Psyche-list@redhat.com
Subject: Creating Bootable Installation CD

Dear folks,

 

I recently downloaded RH 8 (Psyche) release from one of my friend..and i burnt the CDs.

 

The problem was, the CD was not bootable.

Anyway, i used the boot image /images/boot.img found on disk 1 to create a boot disk (floppy), and installed RH 8 on my machine

 

Now, what i would like to do is, i would like to create a BOOTABLE INSTALLATION CD (DISK 1)

I tried giving the following command :

 

# mkisofs -o rh8img.iso -b /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat  -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J -V -T /mnt/cdrom/

 

but i got the following error msg :

 

mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image '/mnt/cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.bin'

 

# ls /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.bin -l
-r--r--r--    2 root     root         8696 Sep 11 02:21 /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.bin

 

What could be the problem

and what is the CORRECT way of creating a bootable installation CD ?

 

regards,
Arjun