Re: [Freedos-devel] Simple boot CD

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:59:23 -0700

This is exactly what I was looking for a couple of weeks ago - a kit that would allow me to build my own FreeDOS iso with the software of my choosing. I would suggest linking this on the FreeDOS home page.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Michaels
Sent: Jul 23, 2010 9:08 PM
To: freedos development
Cc: Charlie Wilkes
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Simple boot CD

are you speaking of the FreeDOS Ripcord, which is used to build bootable cd's and floppies and DVD's?
http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/

also helpful is cdrtfe from http://sf.net/projects/cdrtfe
which is cdrecord based burning software for windows which happend to contain a working version of mkisofs.exe which I use for making ISOs.  there is a checkbox for copying the cygwin DLL's and scripts over into the cdrtools directory.  do this, and then add the cdrtools directory to your PATH.

is cdrtools or something like cdrtfe available in a DOS port?  that would be really cool.
yes, it is!
you might want to add this to the freeDOS collection!
http://perotti.ic.cz/cdrecord/cdrtools-3.00.7z
his email address is [email protected]

cdrtools has one limitation right now - it cannot do multiborder DVD's.  but you can make an ISO with mkisofs.exe using the -graft-points switch so that it becomes a multiborder/multisession ISO rather than disk-at-once (dao).


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From: Charlie Wilkes <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 11:18:37 AM
Subject: [Freedos-devel] Simple boot CD

I recently needed a boot CD, and I wanted to build my own ISO with specific components. I found a package with a script for doing this (http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootablecd), but it was all MS, so I modified it to work with FreeDOS.

Overall the boot CDs posted on the web tend to be large packages, and many of them cost money. What I wanted (and ended up with) is similar to a boot floppy, but on a CD with a small ramdrive that can run whatever is needed. Would this be worth refining and making available, or did I overlook something that is already available?

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