Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:43:45PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> hi ya jon/hohn
>
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jon Dowland wrote:
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> > 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
>
I would be glad to know how to do this since iso9660 file systems are
read only (couldn't find how to mount it r/w and was told it was
impossible, even if the image is on hard disk and not a cd)
> c ya
> alvin
>
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