burning CD's in linux

[Kerry Hoath]

Brent go read the CDR and CDRW howto documents.
They're on http://www.fadden.com/
Don't waste the list's time with questions that can be answered by reading the documentation.
cdrecord has readme files in it, and mkisofs has a manpage.
Learn how a bootable cd works from those.
No dumping the root directory of a running system to a cd won't make it magically
bootable; how would the system update mtab? How would
you run all of your applications on a read-only filesystem without other storage?

Some of us pay for every byte received; why not stop hassling the list
with questions so simple that you could research them yourself?
That way I might even consider answering your questions when you really get stuck.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:33:39PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote:
> Is it even possible to get windows up from a floppy? What about talking
> linux boot CD's, do I just go to the root directory and run mkisofs with a
> period as the file name and the resulting CD image would be bootable?
> At 11:34 PM 4/17/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> >> Well, the only other disadvantage is that you may make it too big to
> >> fit on a boot floppy if you put all that stuff in the kernel.
> >
> >While this may be a limitation, I don't think of it as a
> >disadvantage. I don't need a boot floppy with every service I would
> >want. For my day to day needs, the hard drive works much faster for
> >booting. Actually, I find waiting on any kernel to load from floppy to be
> >painfully slow. I would sooner have windows initially boot from a floppy
> >if forced into this mode.
> >
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> >Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.
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