Re: [Leaf-user] How do you use the bootdisk.bin file???
First if you aren't really familiar with making bootable CDs you can end up with a lot of coasters - so use a CDRW if you can... also you might wanna consider using a CD with floppy setup as it is by far the easier way to do things. that said: You appear to be using windows so you can't really use the proper mkisofs command. What I would personally recommend you do is use WinISO. You will be able to copy your new modules from floppy to the CD image burn the new image and the CD will still be bootable. That is the easiest way to do what you want. The bootdisk.bin file is actually just a binary image of a floppy disk (with a boot sector and everything else). If you wanted to change say how much system ram would be configured for the file system of the router you would have to edit a file contained within bootdisk.bin. If you can get your router up and running without having to alter anything here then that is the way to go. People who end up changing that particular value are usually running several packages that either extend the robustness of the router or help to monitor it. S From: Craig Caughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Leaf-user] How do you use the bootdisk.bin file??? Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:18:32 -0800 Hi folks, I'm trying to understand how to create my own bootable CD and some of you have been kind enough to respond. Charles relied to me by saying: Create a new CD image using appropriate software...make sure you use the bootdisk.bin disk image to make the CD bootable. The proper mkisofs command is included in the CD-ROM readme. I don't understand how to use the bootdisk.bin image with my Nero software to create the CD (I think Nero only recognizes .nrg, .iso, or .cue files...not .bin)??? He goes on to say: WARNING: If you need to change root.lrp, the kernel, or any syslinux settings (including root ramdisk size), you'll need to modify the bootdisk.bin floppy-disk image...it's a plain 1.44 Meg disk image, and can be manipulated with all the normal tools (dd, winiamge, rawrite, c). What does he mean modify the bootdisk.bin image, and why would you want to or need to??? Thank you, Craig _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
Re: [Leaf-user] How do you use the bootdisk.bin file???
Hi, When you start Néro, select CD-ROM (Boot) in the wizard. Y'll get a tab (Boot) where you can find a group called "Source of boot image file" select "Image File" then browse the filesystem to select the "bootdisk.bin" file Click the button "New" Now, you can add file to yourCD layoutand burn it Regards, Etienne - Original Message - From: Craig Caughlin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:18 PM Subject: [Leaf-user] How do you use the bootdisk.bin file??? Hi folks, I'm trying to understand how to create my own bootable CD and some of you have been kind enough to respond. Charles relied to me by saying: Create a new CD image using appropriate software...make sure you use the bootdisk.bin disk image to make the CD bootable. The proper mkisofs commandis included in the CD-ROM readme. I don't understand how to use the bootdisk.bin image with my Nero software to create the CD (I think Nero only recognizes .nrg, .iso, or .cue files...not .bin)??? He goes on to say: WARNING: If you need to change root.lrp, the kernel, or any syslinux settings (including root ramdisk size), you'll need to modify the bootdisk.bin floppy-disk image...it's a plain 1.44 Meg disk image, and can be manipulated with all the normal tools (dd, winiamge, rawrite, c). What does he mean "modify" the bootdisk.bin image, and why would you want to or need to??? Thank you, Craig
Re: [Leaf-user] How do you use the bootdisk.bin file???
ACK! HTML mail. Please don't do that any more. In NERO (I think) you need to go to File\New Scroll down to CD-ROM (Boot) Browse to the bootdisk.bin Essentially, bootable CD's use floppy boot technology to perform bootups. So the 'bootable' floppy must be placed at the start of the CD Rom so that it knows it is bootable. -sp On Wed, 02 January 2002, Craig Caughlin wrote: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTMLHEAD META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 META content=MSHTML 6.00.2712.300 name=GENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=#ff DIVFONT face=Arial size=2Hi folks,/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2I'm trying to understand how to create my own bootable CD and some of you have been kind enough to respond. Charles relied to me by saying:/FONT/DIV DIVFONTFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONTFONT face=Arial size=2EMCreate a new CD image using appropriate software...make sure you use the bootdisk.bin disk image to make the CD bootable.nbsp; The proper mkisofs commandBRis included in the CD-ROM readme./EM/FONT/FONT/DIV DIVFONTFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONTFONT face=Arial size=2I don't understand how to use the bootdisk.bin image with my Nero software to create the CD (I think Nero only recognizes .nrg, .iso, or .cue files...not .bin)??? He goes on to say: /FONT/FONT/DIV DIVFONTFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONTFONT face=Arial size=2EMWARNING:nbsp; If you need to change root.lrp, the kernel, or any syslinux settings (including root ramdisk size), you'll need to modify the bootdisk.bin floppy-disk image...it's a plain 1.44 Meg disk image, and can be manipulated with all the normal tools (dd, winiamge, rawrite, amp;c)./EM /FONT/FONT/DIV DIVFONTFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2FONT face=Times New RomanFONT face=ArialWhat does he mean modify the bootdisk.bin image, and why would you want to or need to???/FONT/FONT/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2FONT face=Times New RomanFONT face=Arial/FONT/FONT/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2FONT face=Times New RomanFONT face=ArialThank you,/FONT/FONT/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2FONT face=Times New RomanFONT face=ArialCraig/FONT/DIV DIVFONT size=3BR/FONT/DIV/FONT DIVBR/DIV/FONT/BODY/HTML ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
Re: [Leaf-user] How do you use the bootdisk.bin file???
I'm trying to understand how to create my own bootable CD and some of you have been kind enough to respond. Charles relied to me by saying: Create a new CD image using appropriate software...make sure you use the bootdisk.bin disk image to make the CD bootable. The proper mkisofs command is included in the CD-ROM readme. I don't understand how to use the bootdisk.bin image with my Nero software to create the CD (I think Nero only recognizes .nrg, .iso, or .cue files...not .bin)??? He goes on to say: Look through the Nero documentation on making a bootable CD. One option for bootable CD's is to use a floppy disk image...when you tell Nero to make this sort of a bootable CD, there should be a way to specify the floppy-disk image file to use. Point Nero to the bootdisk.bin file for the bootable floppy image, and you'll have a bootable CD-ROM. WARNING: If you need to change root.lrp, the kernel, or any syslinux settings (including root ramdisk size), you'll need to modify the bootdisk.bin floppy-disk image...it's a plain 1.44 Meg disk image, and can be manipulated with all the normal tools (dd, winiamge, rawrite, c). What does he mean modify the bootdisk.bin image, and why would you want to or need to??? You only need to modify the bootdisk image if you're changing something contained on it, which would include (as indicated) root.lrp, the kernel itself, or the syslinux configuration. The easiest way to alter the disk image (on non-linux systems) is to make a floppy disk using the image file, edit the floppy disk as required (ie update linux, root.lrp, and/or edit syslinux.cfg), and then turn the floppy back into a disk image file. Finally, use the new image file to make your CD bootable. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
Re: [Leaf-user] How do you use the bootdisk.bin file???
begin Craig Caughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi folks, I'm trying to understand how to create my own bootable CD and some of you have been kind enough to respond. Charles relied to me by saying: Create a new CD image using appropriate software...make sure you use the bootdisk.bin disk image to make the CD bootable. The proper mkisofs command is included in the CD-ROM readme. I don't understand how to use the bootdisk.bin image with my Nero software to create the CD (I think Nero only recognizes .nrg, .iso, or .cue files...not .bin)??? He goes on to say: i think a little confusion is going on here. if i'm not mistaken, nero is a cd writer, yes? there are two things you're going to create: a cd and a floppy. 1. burn the CD iso image. ie- make a copy of the cd. use nero for that. 2. make a copy of a boot floppy. i don't use windows (at all!), so i couldn't tell you how to do it from windows. however, from linux, you want to do: dd if=bootdisk.bin of=/dev/fd0 the file bootdisk.bin is, loosely, a raw copy of the floppy itself. it's not an ISO image. on the c0wz site, there's an excellent tutorial on boot floppies in general. it's thorough enough (imho) to be a definitive source on the topic. after you set up your router/firewall, you can play around with creating your own bootfloppy with a larger format, like 1.680MB instead of 1.44MB. hopefully, i've said something here that sparked understanding. if you understood all this, you can follow the first few steps of the README file on the dacherstein cd. WARNING: If you need to change root.lrp, the kernel, or any syslinux settings (including root ramdisk size), you'll need to modify the bootdisk.bin floppy-disk image...it's a plain 1.44 Meg disk image, and can be manipulated with all the normal tools (dd, winiamge, rawrite, c). What does he mean modify the bootdisk.bin image, and why would you want to or need to??? if you: 1. if you create a larger capacity boot floppy (optional. see above) 2. want to play around with loading different modules (optional) you need to modify the file syslinux.cfg and/or lrpkg.cfg (both are on the boot floppy). that's all i can really think of which is obvious. it's up to you. i don't think there's a pressing need to modify the boot disk -- i think you can pretty much get by without modifying it. however, the default list of packages may not be to your liking. for example, i can't live without tcpdump. :) in dachstein 1.0.1, you *had* to modify syslinux.cfg if the cdrom wasn't /dev/hda. in version 1.0.2 it, thankfully, detects the cdrom so you don't have to do this anymore. pete -- PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
Re: [Leaf-user] How do you use the bootdisk.bin file???
in dachstein 1.0.1, you *had* to modify syslinux.cfg if the cdrom wasn't /dev/hda. in version 1.0.2 it, thankfully, detects the cdrom so you don't have to do this anymore. Actually, you had to modify pkgpath.cfg on your configuration floppy, although you *could* modify the syslinux parameters on the CD, but doing so was definately the *hard* way of solving the problem...this situation is exactly why pkgpath.cfg support was added. Using the new /dev/cdrom, however, is definately much easier...no mods required at all! Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ___ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
