Re: Bootable CD

2005-08-27 Thread Kent West
Jiann-Ming Su wrote: >On 8/27/05, Dan Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I have downloaded the ISO file from http://www.us.debian.org/ but I cannot >>figure out how to make a cd bootable. I don't know how to make a cd image >>for a bootable cd. Please help! Thanks! >> >> >> > >If it's a

Re: Bootable CD

2005-08-27 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On 8/27/05, Dan Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have downloaded the ISO file from http://www.us.debian.org/ but I cannot > figure out how to make a cd bootable. I don't know how to make a cd image > for a bootable cd. Please help! Thanks! > If it's an iso image, just burn it to a CD-R/RW.

Re: Bootable CD Rom problem?

2004-01-18 Thread Mac McCaskie
Thanks, I had a feeling it was something like that. I've decided to go ahead and 'upgrade' the old IBM for a "Joe's Garage" blue plate special. -mac mccaskie Kent West wrote: Mac McCaskie wrote: I've been trying to re-install deb stable from a CD (3.0r2 and 3.0r1 images were downloaded and

Re: Bootable CD Rom problem?

2004-01-18 Thread Kent West
Mac McCaskie wrote: I've been trying to re-install deb stable from a CD (3.0r2 and 3.0r1 images were downloaded and burned to disk), the old system got hosed somehow. The CD is not bootable on the old IBM box (but is on another system). Problem might be two-fold. 1- I am able to get an olde

[SOLVED] Re: Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error

2002-12-15 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Donald R. Spoon wrote: I went through this a couple of weeks ago, and finally the light-bulb came on. ALL of the extra work needed to make a CD "bootable" is done during the creation of the ISO image. Once you have that, then the burining process is exactly the same for either "bootable" or

Re: Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error

2002-12-11 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:11:56 -0800 (PST) Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:55:50 -0500 Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > After several days of trying to create a bootable Knoppix CD from the > > (...snip tons of st

Re: Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error

2002-12-11 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:55:50 -0500 Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > After several days of trying to create a bootable Knoppix CD from the > (...snip tons of strange stuff...) > > Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Where else should I be

Re: Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error

2002-12-11 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: Hi, After several days of trying to create a bootable Knoppix CD from the downloaded .iso, I think with xcdroast I am finally almost there. All except for this error: Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660. mkisofs 1.15a39 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

Re: Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error

2002-12-11 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:55:50 -0500 Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > > Hi, > > After several days of trying to create a bootable Knoppix CD from the (...snip tons of strange stuff...) > Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Where else should I be putting the > 'boot.img'? All that is needed to create a

Re: bootable cd

2001-05-03 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:01:00PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:04:23AM +0800, csj wrote: > > On Thursday 03 May 2001 14:27, will trillich wrote: > > > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:16:09PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > CD-R is a neat toy to create interesing bootable Linux

Re: bootable cd

2001-05-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:04:23AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Thursday 03 May 2001 14:27, will trillich wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:16:09PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > CD-R is a neat toy to create interesing bootable Linux :-) # apt-get install cdrecord To create CD-ROM of files under t

Re: bootable cd

2001-05-03 Thread csj
On Thursday 03 May 2001 14:27, will trillich wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:16:09PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > CD-R is a neat toy to create interesing bootable Linux :-) > > > > It is not reliable as HD but it will never get erased. > > got some pointers you could share? say you've got a deb

Re: Bootable CD, boot_image early?

1999-02-19 Thread Leon Breedt
> Note that the boot_image has to be rather early in the iso9660 image, > because some motherboards are only able to boot from the beginning of > the cd (This caused some serious toasting when preparing hamm). Uhm, how do you get the boot_image to be "early" in the iso9660 image? Directory/File na

Re: Bootable CD?

1999-02-19 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (LEJEUNE STEPHANE) writes: > Hi, > > How can I make a bootable cd. > I've found lots of info about how to make bootable floppy's, > but couldn't find any info about bootable cd. I presume there are > some differences as you can't write any info on the cd at boottime, > whereas i

RE: Bootable CD?

1999-02-19 Thread Shaleh
On 18-Feb-99 LEJEUNE STEPHANE wrote: > Hi, > > How can I make a bootable cd. > I've found lots of info about how to make bootable floppy's, > but couldn't find any info about bootable cd. I presume there are > some differences as you can't write any info on the cd at boottime, > whereas if I'm co