Creating bootable linux CDROM using XP

[Bill Freeman]

It sounds like we need the equivelant of rawwrite for CDs.  I wonder
how uniform the W32 driver interface is for the write capabilities of
the various recordable drives?  Probably just handling ATAPI drives
would be a good start.  Does anybody want to start a project?

							Bill

Michael ODonnell writes:
 > 
 > 
 > > If the .iso is of a bootable CD-ROM all you have to do is write
 > > the bits to disk as-is.
 > >
 > > The first 1.44 or 2.88 MB of the disk image is basically a DOS-type
 > > floppy image that gets booted which then boots the CD-ROM (El
 > > Torito format).
 > 
 > 
 > I don't think so.  IIRC, El Torito calls for a special pointer in the
 > headers that indicate where to find the bootable image, which is not
 > simply the first N bytes of data.
 > 
 > > Perhaps when you drag&drop the CD software is reading the disk
 > > image format (is it FAT?)  and remastering, losing the El Torito
 > > disk image.
 > 
 > Nope - the md5sum is unchanged.
 > 
 > > You want something that can explicitly burn a disk image.
 > > Perhaps the windows utility can't do that but Nero can?  Or you
 > > can find someone with linux or a mac to write it for you...
 > 
 > I have many linux boxes - that's not the problem.  I'm trying
 > to understand the XP approach well enough that I can coach
 > someone through it who doesn't have Linux.
 > 
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