Making a Bootable Linux CD

Posted by Angelo on August 12, 2008

This is an example of customizing Mandriva 2008.0

First copy the contents of the CD to a directory

auto-boot/
|-- VERSION
`-- isolinux
|-- alt0
|   |-- all.rdz
|   `-- vmlinuz
|-- boot.cat
|-- custom.msg
|-- isolinux.bin
|-- isolinux.cfg
|-- memtest
`-- target.msg

To change default auto configuration file, edit:
isolinux/isolinux.cfg

To produce a custom boot CD:

mkisofs -R -J -o auto-boot.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table ./auto-boot/
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Last modified on August 7, 2008

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