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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

On 10/30/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> My partner asked a neighbor for a DOS boot disk (to deal with our two
> laptops that lack floppy drives) and was given the 'ultimate boot cd'
> (www.ultimatebootcd.com) which offers you a choice of booting DOS or
> linux:
>
> DOS - Freedos or Bart's boot cd (win98 DOS), with lots of DOS utilities
> (tests cpu, ram, cd-rom drive, parport, etc.)
>
> Linux:
> Tom's Boot disk
> RIP - recovery is possible
> Trinux - a 1-floppy security-oriented linux that downloads most of its
> files from the internet or another floppy disk
> BL2.1 - complete with FAQ

I think the latest version has BL3.

> So anyone wanting a BL2 boot disk, with a fast connection,

With a fast connection, or patience.

> could download and burn this CD.

> If you download the image file, do you need to do
> anything special to make it bootable

It already is.

> or just copy the image to CD?

Yes.

> How would you do this with cdrecord?

In the standard way. Possibly:

cdrecord dev=0,0 -data ubc.iso

David