new iso file

[Rick Sivernell]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:35:56 -0600
Mike Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:

> 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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Mike

  I was creating an iso image from a data cd, so that I could boot and load a M$ os.
I have beenable to fool the stupid Ms system and use the update cd.

Thanks

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