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["rvijay07" <rvijay07 AT myway.com>]

Yes the CD for BL2 did boot. The explanation was somewhat helpful.
I understand why the file name is needed twice better now than I did before. 
To know that I can get the entire BL on floppy is new news to me. Never heard 
fo this before. So, I did learn something new from this all.

Also, I tried to burn the ISO to a multisession CD and it wouldn't work. Gave 
me an error code. I went to report the error to KDE and I got a Bug Tracking 
form that looks like the Dash Board of a Space shuttle. Left from there real 
quickly.

Vijay :)

 --- On Wed 03/09, David Moberg < davidjmoberg AT lycos.com > wrote:
From: David Moberg [mailto: davidjmoberg AT lycos.com]
To: rvijay07 AT myway.com, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:54:46 -0500
Subject: Re: [BL] Re: How to boot from a non-booting bootable CD-ROM

----- Original Message -----<br>From: "rvijay07" <rvijay07 AT myway.com><br> 
<br>> --- On Wed 03/09, David Moberg < davidjmoberg AT lycos.com > wrote:<br>> 
From: David Moberg [mailto: davidjmoberg AT lycos.com]<br>> To: 
rvijay07 AT myway.com<br>> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:03:30 -0500<br>> Subject: 
Re: [BL] Re: How to boot from a non-booting bootable CD-ROM<br>> <br>> 
bit)<br><br>Hmmm. This appears to be a 2.88mb floppy disk image. If <br>> you 
have<br>mkisofs, you can use<br><br>mkisofs -o bl2.iso -b <br>> 
bl2.10-2880.img bl2.10-2880.img<br><br>which will convert it into a <br>> 
bootable iso. Burn bl2.iso to a CD.<br>I suppose you could also <br>> format 
a floppy at that size and use dd<br>to copy it on.<br>> <br>> <br>> I tried 
this as adviced. No, BL2 still gives the same problems as <br>> 
BL3.<br><br>Did the ISO itself actually boot?<br><br>> This was just a small 
pet project that I decided to try from <br>> general interest. That is all, 
no big deal.<br>> <br>> The above command is a learning experience for me. 
Here are some <br>> questions, can I format a regular floppy to hold a 2.88 
floppy <br>> image ?<br><br>Yes. The disk and drive have to be near-perfect, 
though, for it to<br>actually work. If it doesn't work, you may have problems 
booting.<br>fdformat and setfdprms have options to switch to 2.88 I 
think.<br><br>> If yes does this mean that the whold BL2 will be on a <br>> 
single floppy and I don't need two floppies ?<br><br>Yes. You need to use the 
one 2.88 image that you have. If you want<br>to do the same with BL3, you'll 
need to make some modifications.<br><br>> mkisofs -o bl2.iso -b 
bl2.10-2880.img bl2.10-2880.img<br>> Also, please explain how the above 
command works ? Why is <br>> bl2.10-2880.img repeated twice ?<br><br>-o 
bl2.iso just says where the output iso goes. -b filename<br>designates 
filename as a bootable floppy disk image (use your<br>favorite search engine 
to look for "Readme.Eltorito" for more<br>details). It's repeated twice 
because the -b option only takes<br>pathnames relative to the resulting ISO 
root directory, but the<br>second time it indicates things to go in the root 
directory.<br>(Is that clear?)<br><br>> Thanks in advance.<br><br>You're 
welcome. Eric Raymond's tips for OSS newbies says "don't<br>say TIA if you 
want an answer", but I think the BL list is an<br>exception. 
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