[TriLUG] Mirroring RedHat 9 -- Net Install FTP/Boot CD issue

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 15:34, Jeff Bollinger wrote:

> Next I created an ISO image that I could burn with eroaster:
> 
> 
> 	$ mkisofs -o test_boot.iso test_boot/
> 
> Total translation table size: 0
> Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
> Total directory bytes: 2048
> Path table size(bytes): 26
> Max brk space used 5444
> 1872 extents written (3 Mb)
> 
> Finally, I tried burning the resulting image (test_boot.iso) to a CD. 
> Now I can't get the system to auto-boot to the new CD!!!  Maybe I'm just 
> not that familiar with writing an *.iso with eroaster, but I think I'm 
> pretty close.  Anyone have other suggestions?  Possibly the best way to 
> burn an *.iso?

There are additional steps needed to make a CD bootable.  There is an
additional portion that is not in the "ISO" format.  Read one of the
"distribution building" HOWTOs for details, I don't recall at the moment
how it's done.

--Jeremy

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