[plug] F-Prot on Bootable CD

[Chris Griffin]

Excellent, I shall give these all a go and see if I can conquer it this time.
Many thanks to all.

Chris G

At 15:43 22/01/03 +0800, you wrote:
>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
>