Hi Guys. I'm at my wits end here and I need to make an extremely simple Linux Boot CD that only does one job.... dd's a stored harddisk image on the CD to the underlying harddisk. In short the disk needs to do the following:

1. Boot when a machine is started and the CD is in
2. be forced to execute a small script
3. the script runs a dd command like: dd if=/usr/harddisk.img.gz | gunzip | dd of=/dev/hda
4. eject CD
5. reboot

I can make the script, the dd command itself works, and my image is ready. I just can't find a boot CD that allows you to customise it on a simple level. Is there anyway I can do this? I don't nesessarily want the OS on there as the disk just does a job, not provide an Operating System. I can probably do this with a bootable windows disk and windows version of dd, but linux should do it as well?

Many thanks.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...wn&btnG=Search

hope this helps... and there are tools out there- google make iso perhaps.

titanium_geek

Thanks anyway. Google has been copping a bashing for two days now. However, I have found a very promising option... http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-r...looplinux/rip/

and it's seems to be reasonably customisable. I've made a disk and now I just need to dumb down the scripts.