Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

[Jon Dowland <dowland@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:43:45 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga
<aoga@ns.linux-consulting.com> wrote:
> 
> 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

It is still possible to burn the structure of a boot CD without the
boot block and get the /syslinux directory. Testing for the directory
alone is not enough.

> that'd be the floppy image way
> and another way to make a bootable cdrom is the syslinux way

I don't believe that they are different schemes - if you really think
so please provide a link to more info.

> best way to make a bootable cd ..
>        mount a bootable cd and erase what you dont want
>        and add what you do want

If the original ISO had a torito boot block, then would doing this
damage it? I'm guessing no.

-- 
Jon Dowland