Bootable Floppy from CD?

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Thu May 25 04:00:28 2000

On May 25, 8:18, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> If you want a bootable CD for a PC, you *do* make it ISO 9660 format but
> with an El Torito boot catalog addition

Idiot -- after all that, I forgot to say *how*.

I think Adaptec's CD Creator software will do El Torito. However, if you
have (access to) a Unix (Linux, Solaris, Irix, etc) system, the best way is
to use 'mkisofs' to create the image and then 'cdrecord' or 'cdwrite' to
write it.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Thu May 25 2000 - 04:00:28 BST

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