mkisofs

[Ben Pfaff]

"Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> Let me ask one more thing. How do I create a 2.88 floppy image?

dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy2.88 bs=1024 count=2880
mkdosfs floppy2.88
mount -o loop -t msdos floppy2.88 /mnt
	[...]
umount /mnt

or somesuch, the above are written without testing.

> Can mkisofs also create boot cd image from images which are not
> 1.44 or 2.88 floppy images?

No (well I think 720 kB and 1.2 MB will work too).

> I don't understand why there is this size limit or like to know
> how to get rid of it.

It's a limit of the El Torito format.  mkisofs is powerless to
change it.