mkisofs

[Marcel Kunath]

I am tapping in the dark here. I had also tried something else before but it
didn't work either.

mkisofs -b /temp/disk1/bootdisk -c boot.catalog -o boot.iso -r -L /temp/disk1/

Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660.
call to search_tree_file with an absolute path, stripping
initial path separator. Hope this was intended...
mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image '/temp/disk1/bootdisk' !

The file bootdisk does exist and is a floppy image.

So let me see what the above states:

create image of directory /temp/disk1/ where the file /temp/disk1/bootdisk is
the supposed to be boot image which will then be marked in the boot.catalog as
such. the output file is boot.iso.

hence I know my mistake now:

mkisofs -b bootdisk -c boot.catalog -o boot.iso -r -L /temp/disk1/

full and partial path names getting in my way.

Let me ask one more thing. How do I create a 2.88 floppy image? Can mkisofs
also create boot cd image from images which are not 1.44 or 2.88 floppy images?
I don't understand why there is this size limit or like to know how to get rid
of it.

mk

> > "Marcel
Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu>
writes: > > > I can't get mkisofs to work like I want it to work:
>
> So what is mkisofs doing, then?  You didn't tell us what errors
> it gave or what problems there were in the output.
>
> > mkisofs -b bootdisk -c BOOTCAT.BIN -o boot.iso
> >
> > bootdisk is floppy image
> > BOOTCAT.BIN is that 2048 file and
>
> The file is not supposed to exist.  mkisofs creates it itself on
> the CD.
>
> > boot.iso is supposed to be the output image for CD burning.
>
> You didn't specify a directory to burn onto the CD.
>
> Also check whether you want the -J, -L, -r, and -T options, I use
> them on my CDs.
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