Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Micha Feigin wrote:

> Its not enough to copy all the files to the cd (which is probably what
> you did if you burned it in data mode). You need to make the cd
> bootable by burning a basic system and marking where to find those
> files.

yup..

a bootable cdrom will have /syslinux installed and you'd probably
want to tweek the rc files and initrd into whatever the cd will be
doing

its simplest to take an existing bootable cdrom,
	- disasemble it
	( mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 $ISO /mnt/cdrom )
		$ISO is your cdrom or an *.iso image
	- replace or insert what you want ...
	- tweek what you want ( the fun part )
	- remove the junk 
	- remake the new bootable *.iso image ( mkisofs )

	- magic

c ya
alvin