[H-GEN] Creating bootable/slipstream DVD?

[Glenn Kentwell]

Michael Mollard wrote:
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> Hi all,
> I have 5 x ISO's for SUSE 10 RC1 (x86_32 and x86_64 versions).  I've 
> been trying to create a bootable DVD to do installs from.  I have found 
> a lot of info about mkisofs, but I need to create using Nero or some 
> Windows tool, since I don't have a Linux box to start from.  In the past 
> (SUSE 9.3Pro) I 'unzipped' each ISO file into a common directory.  Then 
> I found /boot/loader/isolinux.bin, used it as the boot image for the 
> DVD.  This has worked in the past, but it doesn't want to work with v10.
> 
> I'm happy to read up more on the theory of how/why the boot process 
> works for a DVD, because this is not only a functional, but a learning 
> exercise for me.
> Feel free to point me to some sites that can help.  Or if you feel like 
> explaining, I'm ok with that too :-)
> 
> Much appreciated,
> Cheers.

Hi Michael,

You can get the cdrtools utilities for Windows as well.  I've used them 
a tiny bit but not enough to give you any advice on using them, I'd say. 
  Although if you can find info about mkisofs anyway, you can apply that 
to using it on Windows.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdrecord/

Hope this helps,
Glenn