[Gllug] How do I create a cd booting version of linux???

[Huw Lynes]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:17:29 -0700 (PDT)
Greg Mickle <gsmickle at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> For the last several months or so, I have been trying to
> figure out how to take a installed version of linux from my
> hard drive and put it onto a bootable cd?
> 
you will need an el-torito boot image. You can find these on any distribution
cd. For example on a RedHat CD they live under /images .

to make your bootable cd:

mkisofs -b somebootimage.img -o boot.iso bootnet.img

then use your favorite cd-burning utility to make the cd.

Howver in your case you want to boot an image which is then going to load an
iso image into memory as it's root filesystem so you are going to have to do
some hackage on the boot image. I would suggest looking at the Bootdisk HOWTO.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Bootdisk-HOWTO.html

I wonder if it might be better to take a working image of Knoppix and disect
that rather than try to build one from scratch.


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