Knoppix on a blue ray disc
 

has anyone remastered Knoppix for a blue ray disc?

the reason why I'm wanting to do it is because their is an imaging program called diskdrive xml and they have a modified version of knoppix. however the image file is about 18gb's and I don't see why I should burn the image files to the Blu-ray then boot off of another disc to image the hard disc.

So I am attempting to remaster knoppix with the hdd image files, then burn that image to a blu-ray.

I've looked into mkisofs and genimageiso
everytime I try to make the iso the command fails because of the large image files. Supposedly the iso needs to be UDF but i'm not sure if that will work

any suggestions will be appreciated

Hi,

I've found this question quite interesting. So I've searched the internet. It seems to be possible, to create a bootable bluray-disc.

But I've read the manpage for mkisofs, at least this tool doesn't seem to create a bootable bluray-image. Another point is, I don't think that you can burn a bootable DVD-image on a bluray-disc. I'm not sure here, but as you know CD and DVD images are also completely different.

I've found a site (in german) http://de.winiso.com/support/tutoria...table-iso.html and this tool for Windows "winiso" seems to be able to create a bootable bluray-disc.

Markus

Thanks for the reply I was looking into editing the iso at first to make things easy. Just dragging in the 18 gig hdd images then trying to burn the iso.

The problem is I haven't been able to find a free program to do this. I will install the software on my windows box to be able to drag them, but once I do it says to buy the full version of the software... I can't see buying a $50 program for something that I am only going to use once.



The closest I've been able to get is with IMGBurn. I am able to create the 18+ gig iso image. but whenever I try to boot the iso up in virtualbox I always get some sort of isolinux error :-/

I imagine that the boot image for knoppix is isolinux.bin whenever I make the iso with that the error is something like

" boot: unable to find boot kernal image" or something like that. But it doesn't have the Knoppix picture like on the original iso. just the isolinux prompt :-/

When you only want to boot the image in Virtualbox, you shouldn't need a 18GB image. Use a simple bootable dvd or cd image and put the rest of the data into a shared folder of the host-system.

I've read your first post once again and I think I didn't understand it correctly, could you please describe exactly what you want to achieve? what is on the 18GB-image?

Markus

What I am wanting to do is have a knoppix disc but with a hard disk image file on it (which is 18 gig). This way I can boot to knoppix and image the hard drive via the same disc.

What I was planning on doing was extracting the Knoppix iso then add the hd image file. then remake an iso which includes Knoppix and the 18 gig hard drive image file.

Since Blu-ray discs are about $6 a piece I am testing the ISO that I make in virtual box. That way if it doesn't boot into Knoppix I wont be wasting a blu-ray disc.

This is the modified version of knoppix that I am using.

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-live-cd.htm

the imaging software is Driveimage XML , if you are wondering


it is pretty sweet.