Making Mandriva Bootable DVD [solved]

[rohitsz]

Greetings there,

 

i am in need of couple of mandriva dvd's to be given to users of systems where i installed mandriva.

So i copied my mandriva dvd to hard disk, and used k3b to write it all to the blank dvd media.

Now when i boot using the newly written dvd, it does not boot from it.

I guess i need to attach a boot file(image file) to the dvd to make it bootable...i really do not know which file that it is... i think it is in the isolinux folder.

here are its contents:

[rohitsz@localhost isolinux]$ ls
advanced.msg*  alt1/	  boot.msg*  isolinux.bin*  test/
alt0/		  boot.cat*  help.msg*  isolinux.cfg*  xbox/
[rohitsz@localhost isolinux]$

kindly help me finding that.

The topmost dir of the dvd is as follows:

[rohitsz@localhost cdrom]$ ls
autorun.inf*  dosutils/   INSTALL.txt*  linuxboot.cfg*  pkg-2006.0.idx*
copying*	  export*	 isolinux/	 md5sum*		 README.txt*
default.xbe*  index.htm*  lang/		 media/		  release-notes.txt*
doc/		  install/	LICENSE.txt*  misc/		   version*
[rohitsz@localhost cdrom]$

 

And can i now make the dvd that i wrote bootble or do i need to get another media!?

 

thanks,

rohit.

Edited August 18, 2006 by rohitsz

[Lexicon]

look man mkcd

urpmi mkcd

Builds a LiveCD from an existing Mandriva Linux installation

 

urpmi mklivecd

Script to build Linux distributions installation discs ....Lex

Edited August 18, 2006 by Lexicon

[scarecrow]

Bin the DVD's you have burned, use k3b to image the original DVD to an ISO image, and then burn that ISO instead as many times as you wish.

Simple, isn't it?

[pmpatrick]

The easiest way to copy a dvd and have it be bootable is to place the DVD in your drive, open k3b and go into Tools>DVD>Copy DVD. In the popup window that comes up, note where the image file will be stored and tick the "Only create image" box. That will make an iso of your DVD. From that iso image file, you should be able to burn as many cds as you want and they should be bootable.

 

The way you are trying won't work. For a cd or dvd to be bootable certain information must appear at very specific block locations on the disk. You can't just copy the data over as that block location will not be preserved. The iso image that k3b creates should be a block by block exact replica of the original dvd and when you burn it, you should get an identical block by block copy of the original dvd which should be bootable.

Edited August 17, 2006 by pmpatrick

[ianw1974]

Never copy CD's/DVD's by just pulling the content on the disk. They will never be bootable. You have to do full disk copies, or make ISO's from the disks and burn the ISO to the disk later. Of course, you open the ISO with the burning software, not dragging the ISO to the disk.

[rohitsz]

Hi,

Bin the DVD's you have burned, use k3b to image the original DVD to an ISO image, and then burn that ISO instead as many times as you wish.

Simple, isn't it?

 

thanks for the tip :-)

I am quite happy to follow what you said and got a bootable dvd

 

Anyways i'll give the non-bootable to someone who ain't gona remove mandriva from their systems.

So i'll most certainly put that to use too :-)

 

thanks again both to scarecrow and pmpatrick(for step by step instructions) :-)

 

regards,

rohit.

Edited August 18, 2006 by rohitsz