[cochiselinux] Re: Conversion of iso CD to bootable CD
- From: Jeffrey Denton <dentonj@xxxxxxxx>
- To: cochiselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:05:51 -0700 (MST)
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Sears, Dick wrote:
> I need my memory refreshed on how to produce a bootable CD starting
> with an iso image (e.g., LiveSuSE). Somebody here suggested
> "Isobuster," but that appears to be a data/disaster recovery utility.
> D. R. Sears IT Team Leader Network & Automation Support Br.
> 520-533-8280 DSN 821-8280
The ISO has to be made bootable when it's created. ISOLINUX is commonly
used to create bootable CDs. I don't know of any way to modify an ISO
to make it bootable without corrupting the image. But that doesn't mean
it's not possible. Even when modifying Knoppix CDs, you have copy
Knoppix onto a hard drive, make the modifications there, then create a
new ISO and burn that to a CD.
One problem that some users run across with isos is when they burn them
to CD. They'll burn the ISO image to the CD instead of selecting option
to create the CD from an image. So they'll end up a copy of the ISO as
a file on the CD and not a bootable CD.
http://syslinux.zytor.com/iso.php
Here is the mkisofs command that Slackware uses to make the install CD:
mkisofs -o /tmp/slackware.iso \
-R -J -V "Slackware Install" \
-x ./bootdisks \
-x ./extra \
-x ./slackware/gnome \
-x ./pasture \
-x ./rootdisks \
-x ./source \
-x ./zipslack \
-hide-rr-moved \
-v -d -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
-sort isolinux/iso.sort \
-b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
-c isolinux/isolinux.boot \
-A "Slackware Install CD" .
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-9.1/isolinux/README.TXT
dentonj
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