Looking for an easy way of making a iso DVD

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 3 18:52:09 UTC 2005


On 11/3/05, Bob Chiodini <rchiodin at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > True, k3b does produce an iso DVD, however not bootable... Can one use
> > k3b to make it bootable when copied into a DVD disk?
>
> "Easy" probably not.  Supposedly mkisofs can create DVD iso images, but
> I've never tried it.  Take a look at the man pages for mkisofs and
> mkbootdisk.  There is an explanation on making bootable CDs (man
> mkisofs), but it's rather complicated (at least to me).
>
> I did not see a k3b option, but not all of the options are displayed
> running it under gnome.
>
> Sorry not much help.

Thanks, Bob. The method proposed (in this thread) by Paul Howarth,
which uses mkisofs, does not produce a bootable iso too.


Paul




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