mkisofs questions.

[Steve Holmes]

Actually, if you have working disks, why not just 'dd' them to an ISO
image on your drive and then use cdrecord to write them back.

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=disk.iso bs=1024k

This will copy an exact image of the CDROM; then just write the ISO
back to CD with cdrecord as pretty normal.  From what I've read so
far, making bootable CD's is a challenge at best when one doesn't know
quite what he is doing, like me:).

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 08:10:05AM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, list. I'm having some problems with mkisofs, and I was hoping someone 
> could answer them for me.
> I've got a friend who is on dialup like me, but wants to try Linux. I'm 
> attempting to make Red Hat 9.0 iso images from my disks  with mkisofs 
> and am 
> ending up with 
> many iso images that don't work properly like the ones you download do. 
> For example my image for the disk 1 won't boot leaving me to believe I am 
> not correctly creating the portion of the iso dealing with bootible 
> options.
> Another problem all the files and  directories with  capitals in them are 
> coming out lowercase really making me scratch my head.
> Can anyone shed some light on what I am doing wrong and what I need to 
> pass to mkisofs to make a properly working iso image of the Linux cd set? 
> Many thanks.
> 
> 
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