Re: help on burning a bootable RH6.0 CDROM, again

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

Chris Kloiber wrote:
> 
> yue-feng sun wrote:
> > 
> >         I used xftp to get the RH60 from sunsite.unc.edu and used
> > the command mkisofs ... on solaris:
> > 
> > mkisofs -b images/boot.img -c boot.cat -a -A "RedHatLinux60Intel" -d -L -N
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^
> > -o ../redhat60intel.iso -r -T -V "RHLinux60i" -v  ./
> > 
> > to create the iso images. Then I used Cuteftp on a PC to transfer
> > this iso image (redhat60intel.iso) to the PC and
> > tried to use Adaptec Easy CD Creator (create CD using disk images...)
> > to create a CDROM. the creation was successful.
> 
> The instructions for making a "bootable" cd are just for the i386
> paltform. Alpha/Sparc don't need any trickery to boot from a cd.

Well, a bit but of a different kind if you want boot CD from SRM.

But this guy wants to write, obviously enough, an Intel bootable CD
(instead of buying one for a few bucks from Cheapbytes or a similar
place) even if he posts on a totally wrong mailing list.

It does not look like that his procedure is "broken" in some sense
unless, of course, this "Cuteftp" is trying to be not only cute but also
"smart" and does "text translation" in a transfer thus totally buggering
images or that "Easy CD Creator" is broken and is dropping bytes when
writing, or something else of that sort.  It is hard to say without
checking all points in the chain above one by one.

  Michal