Re: [Sheflug] Re: deleted data

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 16:01 27/02/02 +0000, Eric E Moore wrote:
>Steve Tickle <s.tickle [at] quarndon.co.uk> writes:
>
> > Could I use this method to make a bootable CD for use as a rescue disk?
>
>No.  The process for bootable CD-ROM (on a PC) is a little weird, it's
>not just a disk image.  (There's a header that tells the PC where the
>"boot image" is on the CD-ROM, which the PC then pretends is a floppy
>disk...  Just another bit of ugly backwards compatibility cruft in the
>PC architecture :)

OK, so I would have to install a minimal linux setup (maintaining the 
partitioning etc) and then copy the contents of the CD to the HD?


Steve


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