[lug] "boot floppy" CD creation recommendations

[David L. Anselmi]

D. Stimits wrote:
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> Next, we need an ISO image which won't freak out systems when they 
> truncate before filling one block of the cd (much larger than the block 
> of a floppy), so we use mkisofs:
> mkisofs -b boot.iso -o plain_boot.iso -pad .

Ah, of course.  I knew the boot sector was all that was needed.  But 
IIRC the ISO boot image doesn't go right at the beginning of the disk. 
I should have guessed that mkisofs had a way to handle that.

Thanks for the info, Google didn't show it up easily enough.

Dave