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["Flaig, Benno" <Benno.Flaig AT t-systems.com>]

James wrote:
>
>>Benno wrote:
>> I am new to Basiclinux and I searched for an Image for a bootable CD. I 
>> could not find one.
>> Finally, I managed to build an 2.88MB Floppy Image to be burned to an 
>> Eltorito Bootable CD.
>> This version of basic linux boots using freedos (http://www.freedos.org).
>
>Congratulations on your success.  Sounds very interesting, and like it
>could be a help to BL users and promotion of BL.  Just a clarification:
>you booted the CD from a Freedos partition on your hard drive?  Or are
>there some Freedos files on the CD itself that somehow aid in booting it?

The CD image contains some freedos files (bootsector, freedos kernel, 
config.sys) in 
order to run loadlin and zImage and initrd. So the CD is independent of any 
hard drive.
And more: as the whole image is in the boot area of the cd, you will not see 
the 
freedos and basiclinux files in the actual CD content. 

(My origin use for this kind of bootable CDs is to carry hard disk partition 
file images 
as compressed tar files. But "magically", the backup CD boots and brings 
everything to 
restore the backup.)

>Likely you made your CD for BL2: 
>BL3 is now in the works, so your CD image may be "obsolete" 

No problem so far. 
Maybe I will do a second run, when its out and worth it. ;-))

Benno