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[ILUG] Booting Mandrake 8.1 off a cd-rom

[ILUG] Booting Mandrake 8.1 off a cd-rom

Mark Finlay linuxexpert at eircom.net
Mon Nov 12 19:50:27 GMT 2001


i'm not trying to get the get the installer to boot.
I'm doing somthing similar to finnix or Demolinux.
Making a live-linux cd: A cd with the whole linux os on it.

*grinn* should have been clearer

Mark

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 19:12, Nick Murtagh wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 16:32, Mark Finlay wrote:
> > I have been working for a while trying to get mandrake 8.1 to boot off a 
> > cd-rom. And appart from one problem, ive been sucessful. Here is the problem.
> 
> Do you mean that you have a bootable Mandrake 8.1 CDROM that doesn't
> work? Or are you trying to make one? The ISO images that you can
> download from eg ftp.esat.net are bootable, all you have to do to burn
> them onto a CD is use cdrecord etc. To make your own bootable ISO you
> could use the cdrom.img in the images directory on the first Mandrake
> CDROM.
> 
> 
> 
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