Re: [OT] Bootable CD

Peter Horton (pdh@colonel-panic.com)
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 19:03:11 +0100

On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 11:32:18AM +0200, bero@mandrakesoft.com wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > > El Torrito spec... You have a bootable disk image. It's
> > > generally a floppy image although I understand it CAN be a larger
> > > hard drive image (haven't seen one in practice).
> >
> > Right. It _can_.
>
> How? Last time I tried, mkisofs refused to create a bootable CD from an
> image bigger than a disk...
>

I have a patch for mkisofs to build hard disk images (and other
boot image styles).

http://www.colonel-panic.com

P.

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