[KLUG Members] SuSe 9.1 Install Boot CD

Bruce Smith bruce at armintl.com
Thu Jul 1 08:56:55 EDT 2004


> I have a SuSe 9.1 DVD
> 
> I need to install on a machine with a lowly CD drive.
> 
> So I was looking around for a boodisk.iso file to put on a CD, boot
> from, and perform a network install from a machine with a DVD drive.
> 
> Only i can't seem to find anything like bootdisk.iso,  only images for
> floppies.

I haven't tried this with SuSE, but I've done it elsewhere:

You could take the correct floppy image, use it for the El Torito boot
image (-b option on mkisofs), and burn an empty bootable CD.

If you try it, let me know if it works.  :-)

 - BS






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