Re: Bootable Sarge customs CD
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:22:33PM +0200, Philippe WAUTERS wrote:
> I want to create customized Sarge cd's to give away during classroom sessions.
> My first idea is the following :
>
> - copy the content of the official "netinst" cd to a directory on my machine
> - copy supplemental files there (for example extra packages in pool/main)
> - make an image of the content of this directory with :
> mkisofs -r -b boot.img -c boot.catalog -o ../my-customs-cd.iso .
> - burn that image with k3b
>
> I have picked-up different files from official Debian mirrors to replace
> "boot.img" in my command above (either 1440 k or 2880k), but I had always one
> of the following problem :
>
> - no boot at all
> - a "boot failed" message
> - boot ok with 1440k images but without the normal Sarge choices (linux26,
> expert ...) and request for a "root" floppy.
>
> Does anybody know the right file to pick and where to find it?
The netinst images use isolinux for booting, so you have to point -b at
install/isolinux.bin or some such and also pass the -no-emul option.
Might also want look at 'debian-cd' package which is meant to generate
custom cd images.
Len Sorensen
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