mkbootdisk on DVD-RW

[Tammy Liang]

Any one has experience to run mkbootdisk with
DVD-RW as device file on Fedora?

Thanks for any help..

[Francisco J. Soler]

Hi,

as far as i know, mkbootdisk according to the manual creates a stand-alone boot floppy for the running system, so is for floppy not DVD.

If you need a rescue systen the last Fedora (core 2), comes with a rescue CD. You can download it from fedora mirrors.

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-rescuecd.iso

Frank.

[Francisco J. Soler]

Hi again,

reading more carefully the man page for mkbootdisk i have discovered an option (--iso) to instructs mkbootdisk to make an bootable image as device file, so you can make an iso image and then you can toast the CD.

For example:

mkbootdisk --device /tmp/boot.iso --iso 2.4.22

the kernel parameter the directory name under /lib/modules

Frank.

[Tammy Liang]

Thanks Frank. I do know the "linux rescue" on
Fedora CD.
Do you know how to copy stuff to DVD-RW?

[Tammy Liang]

yep, I have a /tmp/boot.iso. Now I just need to know how to write this boot.iso to CD via
DVD-RW.

[Francisco J. Soler]

Hi

to toast iso images I use X-CD-Roast, that comes with the Fedora distribution, the executable is xcdroast (/usr/bin/xcdroast).

To find if the package is installed you can do:

rpm -q xcdroast and see what happend.

To make the copy, put the iso image in a temporal directory and configure it within the xcdroast like image directory. Is not very difficult.

Hope this helps. helps.

Frank.