Carsten Neumann wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Mike R. Cannon wrote: > > Copying a bootable cdrom. > > > > I have a cdrom that I am trying to copy. It is a bootable cdrom. I can > > make a copy of it, but I can't boot off of it. I am assuming that I > > need to do something different in the mkisofs command. I even tried to > > to point the iso creation process at /dev/hda, but that did not work > > either. > > I can't understand what's your problem. > > Why do you use mkisofs at all? > The data on the original cdrom is an ISO9660 image, isn't it? > > So if you can boot the original CD you will be able to boot a copy of it.
Well the mkisofs didn't work! I'm not an expert but as I understand it: When you mount a cdrom you can't/don't see the boot information. Therefore when making an iso, you don't get the boot information. I ended up using xdxroast, thank someone for that. > > Kind regards > > Carsten > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mike Cannon Infrastructure Systems Administrator Management Information Purdue University 1061 Freehafer Hall (FREH) West Lafayette, IN 47907-1061 office phone: 765.494.6357 office fax: 765.496.1380 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
