Re: [SLUG] Making an ISO image of a bootabe cd.

From: R P Herrold (herrold@owlriver.com)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 11:33:53 EST


On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Mike Manchester wrote:

> Can this be done? I would like to make an iso image of a bootable cd.
> But everything I can find about making and ISO image looks like it only
> copies files and folders to the iso.

   man mkisofs

There are a number of How-To's about making do-it-youself
CD's updating the major distributions.

I Googled: Bootable CD howto and found:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/RedHat-CD-HOWTO.html section
6.1 answers the question more formally

The quick answer is that one makes a bootable image similar to
the mkinitrd produced image, and point mkisofs at it
during the CD image creation process.



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