Creating a bootable cd

rootyard · 07-09-2004, 10:58 AM

I took a Gentoo CD (live disk iso), copied all files and directories to a directory on my hard drive. Inside this directory I made some changes to suit the way I would like for the set up to be. Now, I want to burn this directory to a cd. How do I make this cd bootable?

druuna · 07-09-2004, 11:30 AM

A search on the net would have given you many resources........

To get you started:
http://www.linux.com/howtos/Bootdisk.../cd-roms.shtml
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lennartb/insta...stalldisk.html
http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/41

rootyard · 07-09-2004, 02:40 PM

thanks for the help but none of these address the problem. if anyone else here has done this, please let me in on it.

comp12345 · 07-09-2004, 02:51 PM

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_LiveCD_and_LiveUSB

rootyard · 07-09-2004, 06:18 PM

that's entirely not what im looking for, but thanks for the help.

comp12345 · 07-09-2004, 06:45 PM

What is that you are trying to do? From reading your post, you copied a Gentoo LiveCd to your hard disk and made several modifications. Now you are trying to repackage it into a new LiveCD (am I wrong here?).

Frome the livecd-ng

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Creating a Gentoo CD
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   This document will guide you through the process of creating an iso image of
a Gentoo LiveCD.  The LiveCD is a bootable, fully functional Gentoo system,
run off of a CD.  Most often they are used to install Gentoo, but they are
also handy as a rescue CD or demo.

   The LiveCD is essentially a stage 3 build of Gentoo with a few extra
packages for whatever application the CD is to serve.

Seems that it should be able to create a custom live cd.

There is an updated tutorial here:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Custom_Stage4

If it doesn't work, you could try http://www.linux-live.org/. They have bash scripts that will create a live cd, but it doesn't work with 2.6 kernels.

ehawk · 07-10-2004, 12:58 AM

In my experience, to make a CD bootable (.iso), you simply tell the CD burning application you are using that you would like to make a bootable CD from a CD image. In roxio, it was something like

file -> make CD from image -> select file -> select filter ...make sure it's .iso -> burn!

something like that...hope it helps