Re: [expert] bootable CD
Jason Guidry wrote: Mike Rambo wrote: Hey, Before this thread goes away...where does the image come from. I tried asking a similar question a while back...I wanted to boot several mini-distros off the same disk. any insight on that? To which image do you refer? The floppy image is created using dd (dd if=/dev/fd0 of=whatever.you.want.img) from whatever boot floppy I happen to need at the time. The hard drive images are created by setting up one computer how we want it and using ImageCast to create the image. Norton Ghost will do the same thing. You have to keep in mind though the we're just working with Windows boxes in classrooms and offices. I don't know if either ImageCast or Norton Ghost support any of the various Linux partitions (which is what it sounds like you want to do). No, not quite (i don't think). I want to somehow, through ISOLINUX or whatever, multi boot a cd with several mini-*nix distros designed to run off a floppy or cd or something. for example, the ideal would be an aurora-like boot screen with the following options coyote astaro peanut closedBSD linux_router_project and there are more floppy distros. I thought it would be cool to have all of these on one CD as a convenience. is this even possible? Ahh.. - I think I get it. You want to be able to choose one of several floppy boot images on a CD, on the fly, and boot from any one of them? ICBW but I don't think that's possible. Reading the eltorito spec leaves me with the impression that things are of very specific sizes and in very specific places on a CD to make it bootable. You'd only be able have one actual boot image on the CD. Whether or not you could then hack that image to continue booting in any one of several different paths I don't know. While there are probably those out there that could pull that kind of programming off, I'm not one of them. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bootable CD
On stardate Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Mike Rambo wrote: No, not quite (i don't think). I want to somehow, through ISOLINUX or whatever, multi boot a cd with several mini-*nix distros designed to run off a floppy or cd or something. for example, the ideal would be an aurora-like boot screen with the following options coyote astaro peanut closedBSD linux_router_project and there are more floppy distros. I thought it would be cool to have all of these on one CD as a convenience. is this even possible? Ahh.. - I think I get it. You want to be able to choose one of several floppy boot images on a CD, on the fly, and boot from any one of them? ICBW but I don't think that's possible. Reading the eltorito spec leaves me with the impression that things are of very specific sizes and in very specific places on a CD to make it bootable. You'd only be able have one actual boot image on the CD. Whether or not you could then hack that image to continue booting in any one of several different paths I don't know. While there are probably those out there that could pull that kind of programming off, I'm not one of them. Hmmm... if you could do it on a hard drive, you should be able to accomplish it using a cdrom. You would need a main boot loader then from there you would have to put your distros in folders and have the bootloader point to each boot image within each folder. Or something like that. I use the nt bootloader on one of my computers to multiboot and when I add a system, I just install the bootloader for that os to that partition and then copy the boot.img to the place where the nt bootloader lives. ie.: windows lives on c:\ and I install my linux /boot partition on /dev/hda6. I also install lilo to /dev/hda6 and after my system is installed, I use my boot floppy (or rescue cd) to boot into my linux I just installed and as root dd if=/dev/hda6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 I then mv the bootsect.lnx to my c:\ drive and edit my boot.ini. Now, you can have as many of these images as you like (actually, I'm sure there is a limit - I just don't know what it is). I think the first thing I would begin with would be to test lilo to see if it will except paths from the cdrom. boot=/dev/hdc map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=Linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=20 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/folder1/vmlinuz label=My funky Linux root=/dev/hdc/folder1 initrd=/boot/folder1/initrd.img append= hdd=ide-scsi hde=ide-floppy devfs=mount mem=1024M read-only image=/boot/folder2/vmlinuz label=My other funky Linux root=/dev/hdc/folder2 initrd=/boot/folder2/initrd.img append= hdd=ide-scsi hde=ide-floppy devfs=mount mem=1024M That's just a possibility, I don't know if it would work. Mike -- Michael Holt Kirkland, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bootable CD
Jason Guidry wrote: Mike Rambo wrote: jipe wrote: On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:23:06 -0500 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm just dense but how the heck do you create a bootable CD these days. i assume that the files and directories from which to create your iso image are in a directory named to_be_burnt. and you're creating an iso image in ~/burn first: create iso image like this cd to_be_burnt mkisofs -v -r -T -J -pad -b boot_image -c boot.catalog -o ~/burn/image.iso . then cd ~/burn cdrecord -v speed=? dev=?,?,? image.iso replace ? with appropriate values boot_image is the image from which the cd will boot. it has to be in the cd! give the path from where you're creating iso. bye jipe Hey, Before this thread goes away...where does the image come from. I tried asking a similar question a while back...I wanted to boot several mini-distros off the same disk. any insight on that? To which image do you refer? The floppy image is created using dd (dd if=/dev/fd0 of=whatever.you.want.img) from whatever boot floppy I happen to need at the time. The hard drive images are created by setting up one computer how we want it and using ImageCast to create the image. Norton Ghost will do the same thing. You have to keep in mind though the we're just working with Windows boxes in classrooms and offices. I don't know if either ImageCast or Norton Ghost support any of the various Linux partitions (which is what it sounds like you want to do). -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bootable CD
Mike Rambo wrote: Hey, Before this thread goes away...where does the image come from. I tried asking a similar question a while back...I wanted to boot several mini-distros off the same disk. any insight on that? To which image do you refer? The floppy image is created using dd (dd if=/dev/fd0 of=whatever.you.want.img) from whatever boot floppy I happen to need at the time. The hard drive images are created by setting up one computer how we want it and using ImageCast to create the image. Norton Ghost will do the same thing. You have to keep in mind though the we're just working with Windows boxes in classrooms and offices. I don't know if either ImageCast or Norton Ghost support any of the various Linux partitions (which is what it sounds like you want to do). No, not quite (i don't think). I want to somehow, through ISOLINUX or whatever, multi boot a cd with several mini-*nix distros designed to run off a floppy or cd or something. for example, the ideal would be an aurora-like boot screen with the following options coyote astaro peanut closedBSD linux_router_project and there are more floppy distros. I thought it would be cool to have all of these on one CD as a convenience. is this even possible? -- Jason Guidry http://www.gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] bootable CD
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] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bootable CD
On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:23:06 -0500 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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] i assume that the files and directories from which to create your iso image are in a directory named to_be_burnt. and you're creating an iso image in ~/burn first: create iso image like this cd to_be_burnt mkisofs -v -r -T -J -pad -b boot_image -c boot.catalog -o ~/burn/image.iso . then cd ~/burn cdrecord -v speed=? dev=?,?,? image.iso replace ? with appropriate values boot_image is the image from which the cd will boot. it has to be in the cd! give the path from where you're creating iso. bye jipe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bootable CD
jipe wrote: On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:23:06 -0500 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm just dense but how the heck do you create a bootable CD these days. i assume that the files and directories from which to create your iso image are in a directory named to_be_burnt. and you're creating an iso image in ~/burn first: create iso image like this cd to_be_burnt mkisofs -v -r -T -J -pad -b boot_image -c boot.catalog -o ~/burn/image.iso . then cd ~/burn cdrecord -v speed=? dev=?,?,? image.iso replace ? with appropriate values boot_image is the image from which the cd will boot. it has to be in the cd! give the path from where you're creating iso. bye jipe Yep. I had just figured this out when your email came through. I had tried to set it aside for awhile until someone told me what I was doing wrong but it drove me crazy with it sitting on the floor so I had to pull it back up and figure it out. Basically the key was that the boot image has to be in the same directory as the rest of the stuff that was recorded on the CD. I don't believe I had to do this on my old 7.1 box with kisocd - that package must have handled all that stuff in the background. In any case, it's all working now. Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bootable CD
Mike Rambo wrote: jipe wrote: On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:23:06 -0500 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm just dense but how the heck do you create a bootable CD these days. i assume that the files and directories from which to create your iso image are in a directory named to_be_burnt. and you're creating an iso image in ~/burn first: create iso image like this cd to_be_burnt mkisofs -v -r -T -J -pad -b boot_image -c boot.catalog -o ~/burn/image.iso . then cd ~/burn cdrecord -v speed=? dev=?,?,? image.iso replace ? with appropriate values boot_image is the image from which the cd will boot. it has to be in the cd! give the path from where you're creating iso. bye jipe Hey, Before this thread goes away...where does the image come from. I tried asking a similar question a while back...I wanted to boot several mini-distros off the same disk. any insight on that? -- Jason Guidry http://www.gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
