Are you sure, I believe it depends on your BIOS first
and foremost, if you can set it to boot in a priority
of cd-rom, floppy,HD.
Al
--- Tom Berkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You need a cdrom that is bootable. I have never been
> able to boot with an
> ide cdrom drive, however, my plextor cdrom drives on
> my scsi bus are
> bootable. I am in fact reminded often when I leave a
> linux cd in either
> cdrom drive and reboot my system.
>
> Tom Berkley
>
>
> "Ronald L. Chichester" wrote:
>
> > "Ronald L. Chichester" wrote:
> >
> > Okay folks, I figured out how to make a regular cd
> using mkisofs and
> > cdrecord (still couldn't get any of the GUI
> routines to work correctly,
> > but the command line routines are still available
> and still work).
> >
> > In any case, the last trick that I need is to get
> the install disk to
> > act as a boot disk. Is there some special
> incantation with cdrecord
> > that I need in order to make the install disk
> bootable? I DID read the
> > man page for cdrecord, but it wasn't terribly
> enlightening. I presume
> > that the image that needs to be booted is
> /boot/vmlinuz in the install
> > CD. Question that I have (aside from making it a
> boot CD) is how to get
> > it to boot that image.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Ron
> > ./.
> >
> > >
> > > If I wanted to make a bit-for-bit copy of my
> (free) Mandrake 7.2 CD's
> > > (install + extension), what would be the best
> program to use? Note, I
> > > have an IDE CD (which would read the source) and
> a SCSI CD-R. I've
> > > tried CDRecord, but it can't seem to find my IDE
> CD.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Ron
> > > ./.
>
>
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