Re: Burning CD Revisited
Hey Larry,
Unfortunately I didn't see your earlier thread either.. I'm about 2,500
messages behind on debian-user. You chose el torito & are looking for a
boot image, so I'll assume you are trying to create a bootable CD.
I was stuck exactly where you are only three weeks ago. I was trying to
make a bootable Knoppix CD. There was some possibility that the way I
ended up doing it was unnecessarily complicated, but it worked. Try the
thread titled "Bootable CD w/X-CD-Roast: mkisofs error" from December..
I posted a "SOLVED" for it on the 15th.
Basically, I had to not point the master source (or master tracks..
whichever it is) not _at_ the .iso image, but instead had to mount the
image as a loopback device (terminology?)... something like this: (but
look at man mount, I don't remember exactly)
# mount -t=iso9660 -o=loop,ro my_knoppix_iso.iso /mnt/cd
you should then be able to `cd /mnt/cd` (or wherever you mount it) &
navigate aroung the iso like you do your HD. The master source is then
"/mnt/cd"
knoppix had a directory something like /KNOPPIX/boot-en/boot.img which
is the image you want xcdroast to be able to find. AFAIK you can't use a
boot.img that's not already a part of your iso. You have to point
knoppix to this image relative from the master source, so if the above
directory is correct, it would have been "KNOPPIX/boot-en/boot.img"
I think there's a boot.cat in that directory too, but when I hovered the
mouse over the boot.catalog tool-tip, it suggested just leaving it
blank/default(?) which is what I did & it worked.
If you read my earlier thread, all the details already fuzzy in my
memory should be clear. I was trying to copy that #@*$ boot.img to every
possible place hoping it'd find it before this dawned on me
HTH,
kenneth
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