[wplug] Using RW to create Boot disk?

[Vanco, Donald]

Keir Josephson wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, is there anyway to create a recovery boot
> disk on CD instead of floppy? Especially, given the lack of floppy
> drives on most new laptops. Are there any install utilities that
> support this or is it a matter of creating the boot disk after you
> get the system up and running? 
> 

>From an old post (hint: the archives are your friend) you'll need to
substitute things to fit what your doing, but the framework is the same.

What follows is the method used for building a bootable CD from a current
boot floppy image.  Floppies tend to have a limited lifespan, and if you
have a kickstart file you've shoehorned into a bootnet floppy you might find
the CD much easier to deal with when loading lots and lots of systems (or as
a "rescue kickstart").  It's quite logical to burn this to a "Credit Card"
CD that can be kept handy at all times.

1) Make a full-sized BootNet image (since mkisofs needs it):

   dd if=<etherboot image> conv=sync of=cdimage.img bs=1440k

2) Burn a bootable CD:

   mkdir bootcd/
   cp cdimage.img bootcd/
   mkisofs -b cdimage.img -c bootcat bootcd/ |cdrecord -dev 0,0,0 -v -eject
-

   (NOTE: You will need to supply the correct cdrecord options in the above
syntax!!)