a different twist on the boot disk

Becker, Rob Becker at celeritas.com
Thu Jul 11 14:13:45 CDT 2002


Has anyone created a bootable cd using Linux tools (ie mkisofs and cdrecord)??
How is this accomplished?  I would like to take a windows 98 boot disk and create a bootable cdrom 
from it.  I have used dd to create an image of the 98 floppy, but I'm unclear as to what parameters 
I need to pass mkisofs in order to create a bootable cd image with that 98 image.
I know that I need to use the -b and -c flags as stated in the cd-writing howto, but I'm a bit 
confused as to what the -c flag take as a parameter?  What is the boot catalog?  What does it need 
to contain and is there a specific format for it?  Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
Rob




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