Re: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

["Steve Kleiser" <skleiser@sbcglobal.net>]

So does that mean the official CD images are not bootable?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alvin Oga" <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>
To: "Micha Feigin" <michf@post.tau.ac.il>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 8:53 PM
Subject: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?


>
> 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
>
>
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