Around Tue,Dec 03 2002, at 09:22, Martin Stricker, wrote: > 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. Or if you don't have a floppy, mkbootdisk --device floppy.img `uname -r` then, mkisofs -b floppy.img .... -- Roger Morris morris_r@4j.lane.edu -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
