Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

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

hi ya jon/hohn

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jon Dowland wrote:

> You cannot determine by examining the file structure whether or not a
> CD is bootable.

usually bootable cd's will have an extra directory
	/syslinux or something

you can mount the cdrom to see what it has
	 
> called (I think) el torito and is described in technical detail here:
> http://www.phoenix.com/resources/specs-cdrom.pdf

that'd be the floppy image way
and another way to make a bootable cdrom is the syslinux way
 
best way to make a bootable cd ..
	mount a bootable cd and erase what you dont want
	and add what you do want

c ya
alvin