new iso file

[Mike Reinehr]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 06:08 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote:
>   I know this has been discussed some time ago, but I do not remember
> where.
>
> I need to make a win 98 iso image to install on a system. I have all of the
> files on a cd to go but need to make them into a iso. How or what is the
> command.  Thanks

Rick,

Your question is unclear as to whether you need to create a bootable cd from 
scratch, or just copy an existing iso image of a bootable cd. As Bill 
explained, dd is the simplest & quickest way of making a copy of the iso 
image on a cd. Then, you would have to use something like cdrecord to reverse 
the process and burn a duplicate cd.

On the other hand, if you have just the files necessary to build a bootable cd 
image, the process is more complicated. As Ken has said, you would start with 
mkisofs. Here's a link that might help: 
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/cd-roms.html

Regarding your input/output error, if I am not mistaken, when you use dd to 
read a file, without specifying a block count, you normally will receive an 
error when you reach the end of the file, but the file image should be 
correct. You can use md5sum to verify the copy.

Hope this helps!

cmr
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