[ale] Fedora 4 .iso's

[Bob Owen]

On Saturday 18 June 2005 21:21, Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> 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:
> >>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.
> >
> >So basically you did this?
> >
> ># 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
> >
> >
> >If so you forgot to tell mkisofs or k3b that you want a bootable
> >CD.
> >
> >
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Brian, in K3b select Tools>CD>Burn CD Image...>and under Auto Detection 
>ISO9660 Image or you can leave it as Auto Detection if you have the ISO 
image.

Bob