Copy a bootable CD?

Peter Abrahamsen peidran at u.washington.edu
Mon Jun 24 13:59:48 PDT 2002


On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:54:21AM -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> mkisofs is not the right tool for this. It takes a colloection of files 
> and makes a disk image. But you already have a disk image.
> 
> dd should work, but I don't know the proper parameters to call it. 
> I think the easiest way is simply to use the "duplicate disk" option of
> cdrecord. 

Commonly, one (me) uses cdrecord. I don't see any options in the man page
for making things bootable, so I assume it's just a matter of having the
right files in the right places. If you've made an ISO from a bootable CD
(with dd or somesuch), I think that should work fine.

G'luck,

Peter

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