[Gllug] creating bootable cdroms from .iso images

[Vincent AE Scott]

Mark Preston(mark at markpreston.co.uk)@Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:02:08PM +0100:
> 
> Richard Cohen's description of making bootable CdRoms wasn't quite what I had 
> in mind when I made the posting, but I found it very interesting. 
> I would like to ask how difficult it would be to take a well known distro 
> like Mandrake or Redhat and then take off a few files/ add a few files to 
> create a bootable cdrom with some special interest files? The reason I am 
> asking is because I'm thinking that this is what, amongst other things, the 
> open source project I'm involved in called OIO - Open Infrastructure for 
> Outcomes should be doing to promote more uptake. One of the main problems is 
> difficulty with installation which requires ideally Apache, PostgreSQL, Zope 
> and the OIO package to all be installed correctly. This, for the target 
> audience of medics/ healthcare workers is asking a bit much.


it can be a doddle.  mandrake comes with a utility on the CD/ local
mirror that you have.  which can create a CD from what you've
downloaded.  my mirror of mdk cooker misses out anything localized in a
non english speaking language.  so the mirror i have, is 'customized',
and i can create CD's from it.

now i've mentioned that it can be done, maybe i should point you in the
direction of how it can be done.

on mdk 8.2 on the first CD image you'll need to run misc/MakeCD, theres
a usefull README.MakeCD in that dir aswell.


for other variants have a look for the makecd package, i think thats
what its claled.

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