Burning a CD

Booting Linux from a CD

You can't book RedHat Linux directly from a CD; it must be from a floppy.

To put boot.img on a floppy (on a linux machine) you want to mount the cdrom (mount /mnt/cdrom), format a floppy and dd the image to the floppy.

Follow these steps:

1. Place floppy in drive (you will *lose* everything on it!)
2. prompt> fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
3. Put cdrom in drive
4. prompt> mount /mnt/cdrom
       (There may be a message saying it's
       already mounted if autorun is installed.)
5. prompt> cd /mnt/cdrom/images
6. prompt> dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440
7. Wait until the prompt returns.
8. prompt> sync
9. Remove floppy.
10. prompt> umount /mnt/cdrom
11. prompt> eject

That should take care of things. If you have the cdrom stuck in a machine, try unmounting the disc (like described above) and then either pressing the eject button or typing eject at the command prompt.