Hi. I am trying to build a bootable linux CD using isolinux and a cloop image. I am a bit lost right now. What I have done is built a custom distro on a seperate partition on my hard drive. I can boot to it with Grub no problem. I've added the ioslinux directory with isolinux.bin, isolinux.cfg, a kernel (with initrd, loopback, iso support), and an initrd file. My next mission is to some how make it a bootable CD distro with certain directories mounted on a tempfs so some files can be writable. It would also be nice to try and auto detect the network card. I've been doing research for the last couple days and I'm pretty much stuck. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. -- Matt http://www.playway.net ----
Matt writes:> Hi. I am trying to build a bootable linux CD using isolinux and a cloop > image. I am a bit lost right now. > > What I have done is built a custom distro on a seperate partition on my > hard drive. I can boot to it with Grub no problem. I've added the > ioslinux directory with isolinux.bin, isolinux.cfg, a kernel (with > initrd, loopback, iso support), and an initrd file. > > My next mission is to some how make it a bootable CD distro with certain > directories mounted on a tempfs so some files can be writable. It would > also be nice to try and auto detect the network card. I've been doing > research for the last couple days and I'm pretty much stuck. Any help > at all would be greatly appreciated.You might want to look at LNX-BBC http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ for which cloop was originally created. Although our nightly builds are currently broken, we have a recent release which works well and uses cloop and SYSLINUX to boot from CD. In the past, people have used the same code to boot with ISOLINUX and cloop with no problem. Maybe our init scripts will give you some useful ideas. -- Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> | Very frankly, I am opposed to people http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | being programmed by others. http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/ | -- Fred Rogers (1928-2003), | 464 U.S. 417, 445 (1984)
Hi, Matt <sqlboy at playway.net> schrieb am 14.03.03 23:13:09:> Hi. I am trying to build a bootable linux CD using isolinux and a cloop > image. I am a bit lost right now. > > What I have done is built a custom distro on a seperate partition on my > hard drive. I can boot to it with Grub no problem. I've added the > ioslinux directory with isolinux.bin, isolinux.cfg, a kernel (with > initrd, loopback, iso support), and an initrd file. > > My next mission is to some how make it a bootable CD distro with certain > directories mounted on a tempfs so some files can be writable. It would > also be nice to try and auto detect the network card. I've been doing > research for the last couple days and I'm pretty much stuck. Any help > at all would be greatly appreciated.Have a look at the knoppix distribution. It is a debian-based CD distribution, that uses isolinux & cloop for booting, autodetects various hardware and can even drive OpenOffice from that CD. http://www.knopper.net/knoppix Regards, Josef ______________________________________________________________________________ Jetzt 52 verschiedene Briefpapiere f?r Ihre E-Mails bei WEB.DE FreeMail - http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021140