Hello. Did you checked md5 sum after download? If is ok and You burned well the cd1 is bootable. Josep Begin of Quote Arjun Karkal Prabhu : > >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 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
