[Cooker] building a bootable Mandrake CDROM - which image file for booting?

2000-02-17 Thread Hugo Rabson 

I've copied the whole Mandrake 7.0 CDROM tree from CD to an ext2 partition.
I can boot from the ext2 partition via a floppy with the 'hd.img' image
written to it. However, I can't figure out which IMG file I need for the
CD.

# cd /mnt/scratch -- where the CD filesystem tree was copied to
# mkisofs -b images/txt_boot.img \--- the IMG file
-c boot.cat -o /tmp/mandrake.iso \
-J -r -T \
-p LinuxMandrake \
-P www.mandrakesoft.com \
-A Linux_Mandrake_7.0_GPL_version \
-V LM70GPL \
.

I can boot from a "CD floppy" (# dd if=cd.img of=/dev/fd0) onto the CD, so
I'm convinced the filesystem is okay. However, it won't boot if I use the
cdrom.img file. It _will_ boot if I use txt_boot.img but that image doesn't
trigger the graphical install routine, which is the routine I need to use.

Any ideas? :) All suggestions are appreciated.

Hugo

Re: [Cooker] building a bootable Mandrake CDROM - which image file for booting?

2000-02-17 Thread Hoyt 


- Original Message -
From: Hugo Rabson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: cooker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 12:59 PM
Subject: [Cooker] building a bootable Mandrake CDROM - which image file for
booting?

 # cd /mnt/scratch -- where the CD filesystem tree was copied to
 # mkisofs -b images/txt_boot.img \--- the IMG file
 -c boot.cat -o /tmp/mandrake.iso \
 -J -r -T \
 -p LinuxMandrake \
 -P www.mandrakesoft.com \
 -A Linux_Mandrake_7.0_GPL_version \
 -V LM70GPL \
 I think the GUI boot is just boot.img. Usually, boot.cat goes in the same
directory as boot.image. Don't know if it is a requirement ro not.
If you want to read the CD with long filenames under that _other_ OS, use
the -R option also.It won't hurt anything.

Hoyt


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Re: [Cooker] building a bootable Mandrake CDROM - which image file for booting?

2000-02-17 Thread Pixel 

"Hugo Rabson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I can boot from a "CD floppy" (# dd if=cd.img of=/dev/fd0) onto the CD, so
 I'm convinced the filesystem is okay. However, it won't boot if I use the
 cdrom.img file.

i don't know what cd.img is.

it should be cdrom.img