you know if the rescue disk is so poor now that it needs a CD, it's probably just better to use toms root boot. On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, 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. > > > > 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. > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
