Actually, there's According to Steve Kleiser, > Greetings, > > What freeware utilities are available that could be used to check the boot > sector/MBR of a Debian boot CD using a Windows machine?
This is probably the wrong place to ask about DOS/Windows utils, but you could do this: 1. get a lnx-bbc or knoppix or morphix or other run-linux-live-from-CD. knoppix and morphix at least are actually Debian. 2. boot in live run-from-cd environment ;-) Poke around with the usual Linux tools. There is a 1.44MB BIOS/DOS-format floppy image on the CD- there is not "boot sector" kind of thing on a CD outside of that. > After burning the CD the directory structure looks the way it should, but I'd like > to verify the correct location and content (maybe via a checksum?) of the boot > sector. Only Windows machines are presently available to me. Perhaps the real problem is elsewhere. Is the target an old machine? Many of those can't read CD's written at higher speeds- try writing at 4X or less. Is the target machine's BIOS set to boot off CD? If not you won't get it to boot off any CD, Debian or not. -- Tony Godshall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
