not working yet

[Bruce Noblick]

I looked at the Debian web site and on the Debian distribution disks.  I did
not find anything on the web site.  I found some possibilities on the disks
but the ones on the first three disks were .deb files.  There appear to be
some possibilities on the source disks but I don't have a way of compiling
them and I am not really sure what I should look for.  I looked for cd*.*
and found something like cdao, cdread cdwrite and cdrecord.  I think that is
what they were.  I am not sure what I should be looking for or how to get
executables for them.  The source files are compressed but I think I can
handle themwith WINZIP if I know which ones to expand.  I can try to expand
them all but if someone knows what I need, it could save me a lot of time
digging through the documentation if there is any available.  It appears
that the boot image is not findable as a file on the CD either so it looks
like I need to read the boot image through some other mechanism and I am not
sure that any of those programs are what I need to to that.  I would
appreciate any suggestions.

Enjoy!
Bruce

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net>
To: "speakup-info" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: not working yet


> There is a program distributed by Debian for just for the purpose of
> making bootable debian CDs. I would suggest you start there. It is
> available in both Winblows and Linux (I believe). That would probably be
> the place to start. I wouldn not imagine it too hard to sub the bootable
> image.
>
> For those not aware of how a CD boots:
> The BIOS reads a bianary image of a bootable floppy disk saved in the
> first file position on the disk. For the duration of the boot this is
> treated as the first floppy drive (A: for winblows, /dev/fd0 for
> Linux). It should stay as such until either the CD or the floppy is
> changed.
>
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
>
> Cluelessness
> There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of
> inquisitive idiots
>
>
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