mkisofs

Adam McDougall mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu
Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:37:24 -0500 (EST)


Also I cant really tell from your message if you know this, but I think
the boot image must be inside the dir containing files to be burned and
when you specify the path to mkisofs the boot image path is relative to
the cd root.

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Adam McDougall
DECS Student
PC-Labs/Hardware/User Support


On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Marcel Kunath wrote:

> 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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