[ale] Fedora 4 .iso's

Brian J. Dowd bdowd at dentfirst.com
Sat Jun 18 21:32:30 EDT 2005


Yes, that is what I did ... I can't find an option in k3b to make a CD 
bootable.
Do you know if there is one ... or another command which will wite the 
"bootable" flag?

>On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 20:59 -0400, Brian J. Dowd wrote:
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>>I've downloaded the Fedora iso's from the torrent and loop mounted them 
>>so I could copy the dirs and files to separate directorues on my desktop 
>>machine.
>>I then created CD's from each of the directories but can not get the 
>>burned CD #1 to be bootable on any machine.
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>So basically you did this?
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># mount -o loop /tmp/FC4-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/loop
># mkdir -p /tmp/FC4/d1
># cp -dpvR /mnt/loop/* /tmp/FC4/d1
># mkiosfs -o /tmp/FC4/d1.iso -r -J /tmp/FC4/d1
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>If so you forgot to tell mkisofs or k3b that you want a bootable
>CD.
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