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by **Charles Blackbu** » Wed, 19 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Hi all me again :(

just a silly one this time, I would like to create a bootable CD of linux so
that my engineers can put the CD in the machine and boot off the CD so they
can use our applications on site.

at the moment, we use bootable floppies, but we would also like to put our
database on the CD's which has things like quality manual, tech specs etc
on there.

I have a HD which has everything I want on the CD on there, so basically
all I would need to do is put that HD image onto the CD, but make it bootable
If you know what I mean.

I know I can "copy" one hard disk to another with dd etc, but how can I do it
to a CD?

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7:14pm up 9 days, 25 min, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00

by **David Billingto** » Wed, 19 Apr 2000 04:00:00

> Hi all me again :(

> just a silly one this time, I would like to create a bootable CD of linux so
> that my engineers can put the CD in the machine and boot off the CD so they
> can use our applications on site.

> at the moment, we use bootable floppies, but we would also like to put our
> database on the CD's which has things like quality manual, tech specs etc
> on there.

> I have a HD which has everything I want on the CD on there, so basically
> all I would need to do is put that HD image onto the CD, but make it bootable
> If you know what I mean.

> I know I can "copy" one hard disk to another with dd etc, but how can I do it
> to a CD?

> --
> Charles Blackburn -=- Remove NOSPAM to email a reply.
> Summerfield Technology Limited - SuSE Linux Reseller & Birmingham L.U.G sponsor

> 7:14pm up 9 days, 25 min, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00

I can point you in a direction that may be of some use. I have been trying to use
CDBL (CD backup Linux) which you can find at freshmeat.net. This creates a
bootable CD for backing up a partition. What may be of more use is to look at
mkisofs which actually generates the image to be burned for a bootable CD. I think
this is called El torino or El torito format. The mkisofs documentation may give
you more info about what is required. If you will be running on different
hardware then what CDBL does using initrd (initial ramdisk) may be of use as a
script or exe (linuxrc) can be use to determine the hardware and what drivers may
be required to complete the boot process. A man page exists for initrd in RH6.0 so
maybe worth reading.

by **gph..** » Wed, 19 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Under Redhat, you can download an iso image file that can be burned to a cd-rw... I
don't know about the hard disk..

> Hi all me again :(

> just a silly one this time, I would like to create a bootable CD of linux so
> that my engineers can put the CD in the machine and boot off the CD so they
> can use our applications on site.

> at the moment, we use bootable floppies, but we would also like to put our
> database on the CD's which has things like quality manual, tech specs etc
> on there.

> I have a HD which has everything I want on the CD on there, so basically
> all I would need to do is put that HD image onto the CD, but make it bootable
> If you know what I mean.

> I know I can "copy" one hard disk to another with dd etc, but how can I do it
> to a CD?

> --
> Charles Blackburn -=- Remove NOSPAM to email a reply.
> Summerfield Technology Limited - SuSE Linux Reseller & Birmingham L.U.G sponsor

> 7:14pm up 9 days, 25 min, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00

by **Dan** » Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:00:00

There is info on this in the CD-Writing (or CD-Burning - one of the two)
Mini How-To.
You should have the Mini How-To with your distro, but if not, check out
www.linuxdoc.org

Dan

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> Hi all me again :(

> just a silly one this time, I would like to create a bootable CD of linux
so
> that my engineers can put the CD in the machine and boot off the CD so
they
> can use our applications on site.

> at the moment, we use bootable floppies, but we would also like to put our
> database on the CD's which has things like quality manual, tech specs etc
> on there.

> I have a HD which has everything I want on the CD on there, so basically
> all I would need to do is put that HD image onto the CD, but make it
bootable
> If you know what I mean.

> I know I can "copy" one hard disk to another with dd etc, but how can I do
it
> to a CD?

> --
> Charles Blackburn -=- Remove NOSPAM to email a reply.
> Summerfield Technology Limited - SuSE Linux Reseller & Birmingham L.U.G
sponsor

> 7:14pm up 9 days, 25 min, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00

by **Strider Centau** » Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:00:00

> Hi all me again :(

> just a silly one this time, I would like to create a bootable CD of linux so
> that my engineers can put the CD in the machine and boot off the CD so they
> can use our applications on site.

> at the moment, we use bootable floppies, but we would also like to put our
> database on the CD's which has things like quality manual, tech specs etc
> on there.

> I have a HD which has everything I want on the CD on there, so basically
> all I would need to do is put that HD image onto the CD, but make it bootable
> If you know what I mean.

> I know I can "copy" one hard disk to another with dd etc, but how can I do it
> to a CD?

Using a boot floppy image and mkiso will produce a burnable bootable ISO file.

use cdrecord to bunt the ISO.

Examples are in:

man cdrecord

( make sure to enable rock ridge extensions in mkiso )

> --
> Charles Blackburn -=- Remove NOSPAM to email a reply.
> Summerfield Technology Limited - SuSE Linux Reseller & Birmingham L.U.G sponsor

> 7:14pm up 9 days, 25 min, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00

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hardly in a position to criticize. Nearly all Linux users have used Windows,
but very few Windows users have used Linux. " -- Me

by **Tim Hayn** » Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:00:00

> > I have a HD which has everything I want on the CD on there, so
> > basically all I would need to do is put that HD image onto the CD, but
> > make it bootable If you know what I mean.

> I can point you in a direction that may be of some use. I have been
> trying to use CDBL (CD backup Linux) which you can find at
> freshmeat.net. This creates a bootable CD for backing up a
> partition. What may be of more use is to look at mkisofs which actually
> generates the image to be burned for a bootable CD. I think this is
> called El torino or El torito format. The mkisofs documentation may give
> you more info about what is required. If you will be running on
> different hardware then what CDBL does using initrd (initial ramdisk) may
> be of use as a script or exe (linuxrc) can be use to determine the
> hardware and what drivers may be required to complete the boot process. A
> man page exists for initrd in RH6.0 so maybe worth reading.

Hint, with slight lack of expertise: xcdroast, doesn't that have "make
bootable" type options, and basically save you messing around with mkisofs?
:)

~Tim
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