Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?
The machine boots just fine using a purchased Debian CD in the same drive.
The burned (and newer) CD "looks" the same using a windows machine, but I'd
like to dig a little deeper. I thought the resulting filesystem might not
start at the right sector, and some utilities might be available for use on
a Windows machine, such as the way FIPS will examine a hard drive.
.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Godshall" <togo@of.net>
To: "Steve Kleiser" <skleiser@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:23 PM
Subject: [debian] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?
> Actually, there's
>
> According to Steve Kleiser,
> > Greetings,
> >
> > What freeware utilities are available that could be used to check the
boot sector/MBR of a Debian boot CD using a Windows machine?
>
> This is probably the wrong place to ask about DOS/Windows
> utils, but you could do this:
>
> 1. get a lnx-bbc or knoppix or morphix or other
> run-linux-live-from-CD. knoppix and morphix at least are
> actually Debian.
>
> 2. boot in live run-from-cd environment ;-) Poke around
> with the usual Linux tools.
>
> There is a 1.44MB BIOS/DOS-format floppy image on the CD- there is not
> "boot sector" kind of thing on a CD outside of that.
>
> > After burning the CD the directory structure looks the way it should,
but I'd like to verify the correct location and content (maybe via a
checksum?) of the boot sector. Only Windows machines are presently available
to me.
>
> Perhaps the real problem is elsewhere. Is the target an old
> machine? Many of those can't read CD's written at higher
> speeds- try writing at 4X or less. Is the target machine's
> BIOS set to boot off CD? If not you won't get it to boot
> off any CD, Debian or not.
>
> -- Tony Godshall
>
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