[ale] Bootable CD from bootable floppy?

[Trey Sizemore]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 20:05, Bob Toxen wrote:

> Yes.  You basically store an image of the floppy at the start of the CD.
> I've not done it but a google search or look at Linux Doc project should
> fetch you the answer.

Found the answer.  For anyone else that needs to do this:


Insert your bootable floppy and get a root shell open

 # mkdir junk
 # cd junk
 # dd bs=2x80x18b if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img
 # mkisofs -b boot.img -o boot.iso .

Burn a CD using the boot.iso file as source.

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Cheers,
Trey
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