[Gllug] Bootable CD's from non bootable CDrom drives

[Ashley Evans]

Different distributions have different methods for starting the installation 
routine. your best bet is to mount the .iso  with something like:
 "mount my.iso /mnt -o loop"

Then look around the cd for either the boot script to call usually rc.local or 
something similar in /etc (on the cd) under. Perhaps a better way would be to 
use the boot images included on the cd. 

Hope this help,

Ashley.

On Saturday 01 Feb 2003 2:40 pm, Laurie Turpin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I normally get the magazine LINUX format each month along with the DVD.
> Quite often on the DVD you have the ISO images of distros. I have 3 pc's
> the oldest is a 100mhz Pentium II machine. Which has a cdrom drive but you
> cannot boot from the CDrom because the bios does not have that option. This
> month I have burnt Yoper onto a CD and wish to try it on my old machine,
> but I can't because the Yoper CD I have created is a bootable CD.
> What I would like to do is boot up from the floppy using a single disk
> distro like Tomsrtbt and then mount the cdrom and run something on the cd
> to kick start the cd off so that it installs Yoper.
> Is this possible?
> If so what should I use for the kick start?


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