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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Oliver wrote:

> i found the img file.
> But for windows i have only 'NTI-CD Maker 2000 Plus' as burning software.
> Did anybody know how to create the cdrom with this software or a free tool
> (windows or linux) to convert img files to iso files?

I don't think you need to convert it to iso.  The way this works is
according to a different method called "Eltorito" which, as I understand
it, makes the computer look at the CD drive as if it were a floppy (a:)
and load stuff from there.  I've used Easy CD Creator, but have very
little experience with it--or any other Windows CD burning software.  On
my Linux one (xcdroast) there's an option for writing an Eltorito image to
the disk.  I'd say look for something in your software that lists
Eltorito.  Then select the BL2 img file as the Eltorito image to use.
The way it usually works is that you write this image to the CD to make it
bootable, then you can add other stuff to the remainder of the CD if
desired.  That other stuff if optional though.  Writing the Eltorito image
to the CD is going to give you a CD that boots into BL2 ramdisk (no gui).
Other programs, modules, etc could be included on the rest of the CD, but
the functionality of these are going to be limited by the ramdisk's
abilities.  For example, the ramdisk is a certain size and cannot expand
beyond that, so installing additional programs only works up to a certain
point.

James

>
> > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, James Miller wrote:
> >
> > > A list member actually made up a BL2 bootable CD.  He had it available
> > for
> > > download but I doubt it's still there: I recall him saying something
> > like
> > > he would only have the image available for a couple of weeks, and that's
> > > probably been a year or so ago.  I downloaded it myself but didn't try
> > it
> > > out, and I think I lost that file when I inadvertently deleted a bunch
> > of
> > > stuff recently.  A search of the archive (using Stephen Clement's
> > method)
> > > should at least turn up information about the onlist exchange about the
> > > project.
> >
> > Just did a quick search, and it appears Benno's BL2 CD image is still
> > available for download!  Here's the post he made about it with the link:
> >
> > Flaig, Benno Benno.Flaig at t-systems.com
> > Thu Feb 5 04:05:08 EST 2004
> >
> > >When it is ready, please tell us the URL for the file.
> > here it is: http://www.flaig-net.de/infra/bl2.10-2880.zip
> >
> > the zipped file is 2.2MB.
> > and contains a 2.88MB (2949120 Bytes) floppy disk image.
> > It will stay on my http server for just two weeks because I have a limited
> > budget download traffic. You may consider to put it to the BL homepage.
> >
> > This image is to be burned into the boot area of a Bootable CD using
> > the "Eltorito" standard floppy disk emulation. The main CD file system
> > is not used and can be loaded with any custom type of data.
> >
> > For instructions on how to burn bootable CDs see
> > http://www.partimage.org/doc/index-4.html (chapter 4.4.)
> >
> > You can also use mkisofs / cdrecord to create bootable CDs.
> >
> > have fun
> > benno
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