Re: Live CD

[John Corey <whoop@mtco.com>]

Mark Blunier wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, John Corey wrote:
> >
> > Is there anything to rip the boot disk from a bootable CDROM?  Is it
> > something simple, like just taking the first 1.44 or 2.88mb with dd?
> > But then, how to know which size a CD uses?
> 
> If the bootable cd was made from the image created by 'mkisofs' the
> boot image is entered as on of the options.  In my case,
> 
> #mkisofs -R -o cdimage.raw $SRC -d boot.catalog -b boot.image
> 
> boot.image is the name of the boot image.  I created the boot image
> by taking a bootable floppy and
> 
> #dd if=/dev/fd0 of=$SRC/boot.image bs=1024 count=1440
> 
> Mark

Right, but what about the other way, taking a given bootable CD, and
ripping the boot image off of it?

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