duane voth wrote:
To make a bit for bit copy of a CD it is probably easier to extract
the CD image directly to a file (avoid mkisofs all together):
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image.iso
then cdrecord image.iso directly. You can test to see if your dd
worked correctly with:
Thanks a gob. Went to bios, put the ide cdrom above the hard drive in the boot
sequence and voila, linux cd booted! First new thing that I've learned this
year! Omen for the year. Yee haa. Wish the same for all.
Tom Berkley
Brian Hartman wrote:
It's a BIOS issue. ide cd-rom's can be
"Ronald L. Chichester" wrote:
Okay folks, I figured out how to make a regular cd using mkisofs and
cdrecord (still couldn't get any of the GUI routines to work correctly,
but the command line routines are still available and still work).
In any case, the last trick that I need is to get the
You need a cdrom that is bootable. I have never been able to boot with an
ide cdrom drive, however, my plextor cdrom drives on my scsi bus are
bootable. I am in fact reminded often when I leave a linux cd in either
cdrom drive and reboot my system.
Tom Berkley
"Ronald L. Chichester" wrote:
Are you sure, I believe it depends on your BIOS first
and foremost, if you can set it to boot in a priority
of cd-rom, floppy,HD.
Al
--- Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You need a cdrom that is bootable. I have never been
able to boot with an
ide cdrom drive, however, my plextor cdrom
It's a BIOS issue. ide cd-rom's can be bootable, too (mine is), but your
bios needs to be set for it. You need to have a bios that supports bootup
from cdrom and you need to set the boot sequence so that the cdrom is looked
for first to boot from, rather than the hard drive.
On Monday 01
