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11.9.1 ProblemYou need to burn a bootable CD. You already have the boot image and data files. 11.9.2 SolutionThe boot image needs to be rolled into the .iso with mkisofs. If the bootable image is on a floppy disk, first make a boot/ directory in the file tree that is going on the CD, and copy it there: $ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/cd-files/boot/boot.img bs=10k count=144 Or copy it from another location on the hard drive: $ cp boot.img ~/cd-files/boot/boot.img Then package the .iso: $ mkisofs -r -b boot/boot.img -c boot/boot.catalog -o bootable-cd.iso ~/cd-files Now burn it to disc with cdrecord, in the usual fashion, and you have a bootable CD. 11.9.3 Discussionmkisofs uses the El Torito specification to create a boot image that fools a PC into thinking it's seeing a boot floppy. All you need is the boot image, and mkisofs creates the boot catalog. The options are:
11.9.4 See Also
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