Fwd: Booting ISO file without burning on cd or writing to disk.

bmsleight should be posting replying to the user-list

On 11/27/05, Raj Shaz <> wrote:
> hi Brendan
>
> Firstly thankyou for ur responzes.
>
> Secondly in making a mkisofs -i -L ..blah blah .... it also ask for -b
> /base/boot.img and -c /base/boot.cat now ... in the new iso's like
> firefox,heavygui,barex and all these boot.img doesnot exist... so how to =
i
> make it without boot.img
>
> secondly if i make it with make-iso tool ...which boot.img does it use...=
 if
> im not mistaken then this image is used and writen in the mbr of the disk
> ...
>
> thanx
> Raj
>
>
>
> On 11/27/05, Brendan M. Sleight <[email protected]> wrote:
> > HI Raj,
> >
> > On 11/27/05, Raj Shaz <> wrote:
> > > Hi group
> > >
> > > Firstly thx for my last reply ,Now im experimenting with morphix ... =
but
> > > everytime i burn on my rewritable cd , but now this disk is also
> corrupted.
> >
> > Make sure the correct command is used for making the iso. You can
> > either use of the morphix tools - make-iso
> >
> http://www.morphix.org/manual/how_tos/docbook_html/ar01s04.html
> >
> > Or use the command as detailed in the readme, as copy of which is
> > available in the manual: -
> >
> http://www.morphix.org/manual/how_tos/docbook_html/ar01s07.html
> >
> > > If this doesnot happen... or is there a way of atleast testing the is=
o
> for
> > > its correctness....
> >
> > qemu can be used for testing isos:-
> >
> http://www.morphix.org/manual/how_tos/docbook_html/ar01s05.html#TestQemu
> >
> http://www.morphix.org/index.php?option=3Dcom_zoom&Itemid=3D74&page=3Dvie=
w&catid=3D1&PageNo=3D1&key=3D3&hit=3D1
> >
> > Bochs and vmware can be used also for booting livecd's within your
> > current operating system.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Brendan
> >
>
>


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