[plug] F-Prot on Bootable CD

[Brad Campbell]

Chris Griffin wrote:

> While everyone is one the subject...
>
> I have in the past tried to create a bootable CD, both in Linux and 
> Window$. They both seem
> to want me to supply a boot image file for: "floppy emulation", "HDD 
> emulation" or "no emulation"
>
> The "no emulation" option does not end up with a bootable CD and I do 
> not have "images"
> for the other options?? Or do I have one and not know it?
>
> Can someone enlighten me on this subject please?

I make boot images by creating a floppy that does what I want it to, 
that way it's cheap and
easy to test, then I simply dd if=/dev/fd0 of=bootimg to create the 
bootimg file which I pass
to the cd-writing program.
For a linux boot image, you could create an ext2 floppy with lilo on it 
I guess.
Most of mine are dos-boot images for rescuing or installing that other OS.
I have never created a linux boot cd, but done hundreds of linux boot 
floppies.
I do it with syslinux and a compressed ext2 rootfs.

Brad