Re: [K12OSN] Etherboot image on CD or HD
Terrell Prude', Jr. (microman@cmosnetworks.com)
Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:34:40 -0500
Sure. My method involves the use of cat, mkisofs, and cdrecord. It
goes like this:
1.) cat your EtherBoot image to a floppy like you'd use to netboot a
box. dd will of course also work.
2.) Make an image of that floppy to your hard disk, like this: cat
/dev/fd0 > etherboot.img
3.) Use mkisofs to write that 1.44MB floppy image to an El Torito
"bootable" CD ISO image, like so:
mkisofs -b etherboot.img -c boot.catalog -rJT -o NetBootCD.iso
/some/dir/tree/that/you/want
I usually include a bunch of useful files like kernels (a'la
Slackware), mke2fs, tune2fs, and so on. You know, rescue-type stuff.
You don't really need to (you should be able to do an empty directory),
but since I'm burning a CD anyway, I might as well, hence the
/some/dir/tree/that/you/want.
4.) Actually burn the CD with cdrecord. On my box, I do this:
cdrecord -v fs=16m speed=8 dev=0,3,0 NetBootCD.iso
And that should do it. If anyone has anything else to add to this that
might be useful, please feel free.
--TP
David Trask wrote:
>I have a machine with only a CD_ROM drive and Hard Drive....how can I get
>the etherboot image onto a CD or HD so I can boot it? Anyone able to help
>me or point me to the how-to?
>
>David N. Trask
>Technology Teacher/Coordinator
>Vassalboro Community School
>dtrask@vcs.u52.k12.me.us
>(207)923-3100
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