> >From what I understand, a floppy disk image is placed in a special > location on the disc. The system BIOS is able to read that section of > the CD and load it into memory. If you burn the floppy image directly > to a CD, it is no longer what I would call a `true' CD. It doesn't > follow any of the standards at all and wouldn't be recognizeable as a CD > by anything trying to read it. You wouldn't be able to put anything > else on the CD (well, I suppose you could read it back with `dd', but > that's a suboptimal option). Also, as it would (at most) only the boot > block of the floppy image would be read, you wouldn't be able to boot > off of it. Linux should read it. CDROM, HD partition, floppy, same diff as far as Linux is concerned. ;) Have yet to mess with it myself, but a bootable CD is just a floppy disk image on the ISO filesystem with some magic pointer pointing to it. There's also some boot catalog file you have to have but I don't understand what it actually does... Go RTFM on making bootable CDs. :P --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org