Google 'El Torito'. The actual spec doc is a slog through mind numbing details, so here is one walkthrough that I have used to create a bootable CD from a disk drive image. It is very manual but it does work and is easy to follow. It is from Microsoft but surprisingly is not MS-centric apart from volume designations and editors named:<br><br>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/167685<br><br>Some disk burning applications do all of this automatically, or allow you to create a 'bootable CD'; they place the boot floppy image on one 'partition' and the data image in another 'partition'...<br><br><b><i>Glen Gunsalus <g-gunsalus@mindspring.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I have an iso image for which I don't have access to the file system from <br>which it was built. I would like to make it bootable.<br><br>I have used it on machines with both floppy and
cd drives - just use a <br>bootable floppy and then reference the cd for system load. I have a system <br>w/o floppy so now need to see if I can't make a bootable cd image with the <br>current .iso.<br><br>My hope was that I could combine a floppy boot.img with the current iso <br>somehow, but can't find a way that'll do the job.<br><br>I've been through HOWTOs, looked hard at mkisofs and cdrecord and "googled" <br>but to no avail.<br><br>Am I beating a dead horse, or is there a way to do this?<br><br>TIA for any pointers, ideas.<br><br>Regards, Glen<br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br>talk@nblug.org<br>http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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