[H-GEN] Creating bootable/slipstream DVD?

[David Seikel]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:27:59 +1000 Michael Mollard <molm at cvxmck.edu.au>
wrote:

 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 know nothing about Windows CD burner applications, but I do know about
ISO images.  Usually, for at least the first image, it is already
bootable, you just burn the image to a disk.  The ISO image file is a
bit for bit copy of what goes on the disk, there is no need to do
anything to it to make it bootable.

Note that the software needs to know how to burn an ISO, not just
making a disk with the file on it.  The difference is that a properly
burnt ISO ends with a disk with lots of files on it (the 'unzipped'
contents you refer to), other wise you just get a disk with one big
file filling the disk, suse_10_rc1_disk1.iso or what ever it is
actually called.

Hopefully someone that knows Nero and other Windows tools can tell you
how to get them to do the correct thing.

The mega distro server that is available at HUMBUG meetings now has a
DVD burner, so if it is still a problem by the next meeting, feel free
to ask me to burn disks for you.

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