[Paranoia] can't make a CD bootable

[Bill Davidsen]

Gerard Robin wrote:

>Hello,
>to copy a CD of data I do:
>mkisofs -R -r -J /cdrom | cdrecord -v fs=6m speed=4 dev=1,0 dev=1,0 -
>and all works fine.
>
>But now, I want to copy a CD bootable.
>man mkisofs gives the option: -G generic_boot_image
>I don't figure out what is generic_boot_image
>
>How must I pass the option -G in my previous command ?
>tia.
>
>  
>
Did you get an answer? The way I would do it is to (a) find the length 
of the ISO filesystem, and (b) burn it as is.
  dd if=/dev/cdreader bs=2k count=$NumSectors | cdrecord ...
Or copy it to disk if you have a single CD device.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979