[syslinux] Trying to build bootable iso but very confused by syslinux documentation

Geert Stappers
Tue, 03 May 2016 04:27:04 -0000

On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 11:21:13PM -0400, John Lewis via Syslinux
wrote:
> I was trying to follow this tutorial
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch. i got
> confused with the part about Create an isolinux.cfg file.
>
> The show stopper for me was the mkisofs because the closest command I
> had available was xorrisofs and I think a switch was different.

At https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch is

| Create the Cd Image Directory and Populate it
|
| There are 4 packages that need to be installed on the Host System
| which provide the tools to make the Cd image. Syslinux contains
| isolinux which makes the Cd bootable. Squashfs-tools will compress
| the image. Genisoimage provides mkisofs tool to turn a directory into
| a CD image. So install syslinux, squashfs-tools, mkisofs and sbm.
|
|   sudo apt-get install syslinux squashfs-tools genisoimage

I did install genisoimage on a Debian system and is misses indeed `mkisofs`,
so must likely also no `mkisofs` in the Ubuntu package.

I don't know if `xorrisofs` superseeds `mkisofs`.


Subject: Re: [syslinux] Trying to build bootable iso but very confused by
syslinux documentation

It is the syslinux documentation that we, this mailinglist, can update.

Where is the part that got you confused?



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