[ale] How to burn a bootable Debian Sarge cd

[Jim Popovitch]

"Bootableness" is determined when making the iso (mkisofs), not when
burning it (cdrecord).   You need to specify one or more options (el
torito, generic, sparc, etc) to the make process.  This will create the
correct sequence in the first part of the image.

As for the debian iso image, where did it come from.  There are plenty
of bad/questionable ones out there.

-Jim P.

On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 20:04 -0400, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Under xcdroast there is a bootable check box when defining the settings 
> for the burn.  Haven't found the same under K3b.  Isn't the format 
> different for a bootable CD?  Some spec about Toledo?  Can't remember if 
> I've read anything about this in the past.  I've burned iso bootable 
> images in K3b with no problem.  Under XCDRoast I had to check that box 
> to make it bootable or else the image wasn't burned correctly.
> 
> Probably needs some googling to find the answer.
> Dow
> 
> 
> Jim Seymour wrote:
> 
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I am trying to burn a bootable cd to install Sarge over the net. I have
> >downloaded the iso file for the install. I have tried burning it several
> >times and have not been able to produce a bootable cd. I thought there
> >was a different way you were supposed to burn a cd that was going to be
> >bootable, however I can find nothing to that fact in my searches. The
> >system I am using is Debian Sarge with cdrecord as the burn software.
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Jim Seymour
> >  
> >
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