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

[Chris Kloiber <chris_kloiber suth com>]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> 
> 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

Oops. Guess I didn't read far enough. I assumed that since this was the
axp-list that we would be talking about things Alpha. Sorry.

Chris