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Old 01-28-2007, 06:33 PM   #1
strycnine
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mkisofs


I tried to do I livecd slackware, I read this file http://www.linuxpackages.net/howto.p...e=livecd+HOWTO
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I did all what ii saying there, but at the final when I run this command:
$mkisofs -o /root/livecd.iso -R -J -hide-rr-moved -v -d -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 32 -boot-info-table -sort isolinux/iso.sort -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/isolinux.boot

it gives me this output:
$Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660.
mkisofs 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
mkisofs: Missing pathspec.
Usage: mkisofs [options] file...

Use mkisofs -help
to get a list of valid options.

What's wrong??

And I have another questions...which script displays the content of issue, and motd...I want to personalize my booting process.
thx
 
Old 01-29-2007, 02:54 AM   #2
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Hi

I have only done this once myself, so please read with a moderate degree of scepticism.

Run the command in the directory you have the files in, change /root/livecd.iso to livecd.iso, change -boot-load-size 32 to 4 and also put " ." (space, dot) at the end.

Code:
$mkisofs -o livecd.iso -R -J -hide-rr-moved -v -d -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -sort isolinux/iso.sort -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/isolinux.boot .
I don't know if this will work for you, but it is worth a try. Oh and I would also run it as root.

Samac
 
Old 01-29-2007, 04:50 AM   #3
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Quote:
Originally Posted by strycnine
I did all what ii saying there, but at the final when I run this command:
$mkisofs -o /root/livecd.iso -R -J -hide-rr-moved -v -d -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 32 -boot-info-table -sort isolinux/iso.sort -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/isolinux.boot
The "mkisofs" line shown on that page has a dot at the end. In this case, the dot is very significant, it is not the end of the line but part of the command! This is the command in full:
Code:
mkisofs -o /root/livecd.iso -R -J -hide-rr-moved -v -d -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 32 -boot-info-table -sort isolinux/iso.sort -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/isolinux.boot .
and you're meant to run it from the toplevel directory where you placed your Slackware files.

Eric
 
Old 01-29-2007, 06:25 AM   #4
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And just a minor addition:
$mkisofs -o /root/livecd.iso

$ and root dir?
 
  


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