Maybe I'm just dense but how the heck do you create a bootable CD these days. I'm need to make a bootable restore CD for our public safety department. I want to put their computer hard drive image on it and have it boot from the CD and start imaging automatically. I have the hard drive image file. I have the boot floppy image. I can't get it all onto a CD successfully. I now have two coasters which have a perfect copy of the hard drive image file but the stinking CD's won't boot. The computer boots from other CD's just fine.
I'm using a 8.1 system now and have tried xcdroast, eroaster, gcombust, and mkisofs from the CLI to no avail. All of them complain that they can't find either the boot image or the boot.catalog file. I have tried placing the floppy image everywhere I can think of and it has permissions that would allow everyone from Charles Manson to the Pope to read it. This is frustrating because my old system (7.1) with kisocd just worked by giving it a file name and location. Unfortunately kisocd is no longer supported it would appear. README.eltorito says that the boot.catalog file will be automatically created but doesn't say where. It also speaks of the boot image but doesn't say where it needs to be. Absolute paths don't find it which is totally confusing. The CD-writing howto on LDP just points to the README.eltorito file included with mkisofs. What is the magic step here to make this work? Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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