I'm wondering if it's possible to use isolinux on a bootable CDR to boot an ISO9660 disk image off of the CDR's filesystem. I'm trying to make a multi-boot CD which is capable of booting both floppy images and smaller ISO9660 images (such as the debian netinst or DSL - damnsmall linux), and I am wondering if isolinux is capable of doing this (or something similar to this - would there be a workaround through another method?), or if I might need to try using GRUB. I looked on the syslinux pages and googled for a couple hours and didn't find any information on this, otherwise I'd not waste your time. :P Thanks, Ben
On Monday, February 7, 2005, 2:43:59, Benjamin Hodgens wrote:> I'm wondering if it's possible to use isolinux on a bootable CDR to boot an > ISO9660 disk image off of the CDR's filesystem. I'm trying to make a multi-boot > CD which is capable of booting both floppy images and smaller ISO9660 images > (such as the debian netinst or DSL - damnsmall linux), and I am wondering if > isolinux is capable of doing this (or something similar to this - would there be > a workaround through another method?), or if I might need to try using GRUB.It's pretty much impossible to boot a CD image AFAIK, but you should be able to combine the different CDs into one, and then use ISOLinux to select which one to boot. -- < Jernej Simoncic ><><><><>< http://deepthought.ena.si/ > Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. -- (Sam) Brown's Law
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 01:43, Benjamin Hodgens wrote:> I'm wondering if it's possible to use isolinux on a bootable CDR to boot an > ISO9660 disk image off of the CDR's filesystem. I'm trying to make a multi-boot > CD which is capable of booting both floppy images and smaller ISO9660 images > (such as the debian netinst or DSL - damnsmall linux), and I am wondering if > isolinux is capable of doing this (or something similar to this - would there be > a workaround through another method?), or if I might need to try using GRUB.Yes it is possible there is a project that you might be interested in looking: http://ubcd.sf.net the project uses both memdisk and diskemu. But not isolinux (they use a something called cdshell) It is also possible to do what you want with a basic isolinux setup remembering to setup the config file so that memdisk is the kernel and the floppy image is the initrd. -- Tim Fletcher .~. email: tim at night-shade.org.uk /V\ L I N U X // \\ >Don't fear the penguin< irc: Night-Shade on Quakenet /( )\ ^^-^^ Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam (For non-latiners: "I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.")
Tim Fletcher wrote:> > Yes it is possible there is a project that you might be interested in > looking: http://ubcd.sf.net the project uses both memdisk and diskemu. > But not isolinux (they use a something called cdshell) > > It is also possible to do what you want with a basic isolinux setup > remembering to setup the config file so that memdisk is the kernel and > the floppy image is the initrd. >Interesting. I wonder how this cdshell software works, technologically, and what its limitations are. -hpa