Making a bootable CD

[Thomas Carter]

I wanted to make a bootable floppy disk based on the kernel I am
currently running. However, such kernel is too big for a floppy. What is
the procedure to make a bootable CD based on an installed kernel?

[Thomas Carter]

I forgot: What I want to do is to boot off a kernel on a CD, and
mount a filesystem already in the disk. I would like to put in the CD only
the stuff that I absolutely need for this purpose.

[Olive]

Make an image of bootable hard disk or a 2880KB floppy. Then make a
bootable CD with mkisofs withe the -hard-disk-boot or -b option (see man
mkisofs for details)

Olive

[Thomas Overgaard]

Thomas Carter wrote :

> What is the procedure to make a bootable CD based on an installed
> kernel

Use the 'mkrescue --iso' command. This will create a image named
rescue.iso and when you burn this image to a CD you'll get a boot-CD
instead of a boot-floppy.
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[Enkidu]

Thomas Carter <T.Ca...@nanobots.com> wrote on Wednesday 16 February 2005
12:09:

I think what you want is closer to a LiveCD. Check out
http://www.linux-live.org for more details on how this is accomplished.

Enkidu
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