Looking for an easy way of making a iso DVD

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 18:52 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 11/3/05, Bob Chiodini <rchiodin at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > > True, k3b does produce an iso DVD, however not bootable... Can one use
> > > k3b to make it bootable when copied into a DVD disk?
> >
> > "Easy" probably not.  Supposedly mkisofs can create DVD iso images, but
> > I've never tried it.  Take a look at the man pages for mkisofs and
> > mkbootdisk.  There is an explanation on making bootable CDs (man
> > mkisofs), but it's rather complicated (at least to me).
> >
> > I did not see a k3b option, but not all of the options are displayed
> > running it under gnome.
> >
> > Sorry not much help.
> 
> Thanks, Bob. The method proposed (in this thread) by Paul Howarth,
> which uses mkisofs, does not produce a bootable iso too.

That's true, but at that point in the thread there had been no mention
of the "bootable" requirement. The way to make a bootable CD or DVD will
depend on what exactly it is that you want to boot into.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>