Mel Seder wrote: > > --- Martin Stricker <shugal@gmx.de> wrote: > I've never run mkisofs before. I looked at the man page and it was > overwhelming. I don't want to run the risk of not being able to > create bootable CDs. If I can find a setp by step on what has to be > run I'd really like to make a bootable CD look exactly like a floppy. Well, I *did* read the release-notes, but that was after I got my boxed set... Just for completion, I'll give you some hints how to do mkbootdisk --iso by hand: First, put your bootdisk into your floppy drive (I assume /dev/fd0 here, dev/floppy should work as well) dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img bs=1440 count=1 Now you have a bootable floopy image named boot.img in the current directory. Now create the ISO image file: mkisofs -b boot.img # incomplete command, sorry! Now burn the ISO as image. > > When booting in rescue mode you can get your system by typing > > `chroot /mnt/sysimage`, but you still run the CD kernel, not your > > own installed kernel, so additional drivers you might have > > compiled in will not work. > > The above explanation about getting my filesystem from Red Hat's > install disk is the best I've seen. Every word had to fight for it's > deserved place in your response and your heads up about driver > availability was a welcome tid-bit. This memo will we > semi-automatically move to my keeper mail folder. LOL! Yeah, I know I tend to be terse. I'm a coder, thus I'm lazy. ;=D I don't like to waste time amd energy - I do this in my spare time... And English is a foreign language for me... I'm happy you enjoyed it! And I ran into the driver problem once myself... ;=D > Now I can try the Linux Care disk I burned. Note: The LinuxCare CD might put the system in another place than /mnt/sysimage, so look out. And it's a Debian Linux system, so it might work slightly different than you are used to from Red Hat Linux. -- Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ Moeh for Kanzler! ;-) http://www.yes-moeh.de/index/ Webmaster-Forum: http://www.masterportal24.com/cgi-bin/yindex.cgi Star Trek Rollenspiel: http://www.uss-republic.de/ Deutscher Science Fiction Preis http://www.dsfp.de/ verliehen vom Science Fiction Club Deutschland e. V.: http://www.sfcd-online.de/ Red Hat Linux 7.3 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/ -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
