How to creat you own ISO ( basics )

This documentation is based on Fedora Core 9 . On how to build you own ISO with the mkisofs command

1st mount the the FC 9 on to /media

now cd /media

mkisofs -o /makecd/agnello_linux.iso -p 'agnel' -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J -v -T /makecd

-o ---> is the path where the iso image is goiin to be created

-p ----> pecifies a text string that will be written into the volumeheader. This should describe the preparer of the CDROM, usually with a mailing address and phone number.

-no-emul-boot ---> Specifies that the boot image used to create "El Torito" bootable CDs is a 'no emulation' image. The system will load and execute this image without performing any disk emulation.

-c -----> Specifies the path and filename of the boot catalog to be used when making an bootable CD.

-boot-load-size ----> Specifies the number of "virtual" (512-byte) sectors to load in no-emulation mode. The default is to load the entire boot file. Some BIOSes may have problems if this is not a multiple of 4.

-boot-info-table -----> Specifies that a 56-byte table with information of the CD-ROM layout will be patched in at offset 8 in the boot file.

-R Generate SUSP and RR records using the Rock Ridge protocol to further describe the files on the iso9660 filesystem.

-v Verbose execution.

-T Generate a file TRANS.TBL in each directory on the CDROM

/makecd ----> the location of the cd content

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