Re: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:32:24PM -0500, Steve Kleiser wrote:
> So does that mean the official CD images are not bootable?
>
They are (or should be, if they are not its a bug). You need to burn
them in burn image mode.
The notes were mostly in case you want to make changes on the CD.
> ----- 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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