[Ltsp-discuss] rom-o-matic.net update: etherboot-5.3.5 development release

[Marty C. <md...@en...>]

Etherboot 5.3.5-mc1 is up at

    http://www.rom-o-matic.net/

Notable in this release is an option to create bootable .iso files (CD 
images) suitable for burning to a CD.

NOTE:
These .iso images are created using the "no floppy emulation" option, 
so you'll need a reasonably recent BIOS to boot from a CD burned from 
them. Make sure to set your BIOS to include CDROM in the boot order!

To burn a CD-R from a command line, you would need to do something like:

    $ sudo bash

(you may need superuser status to write to the CD writer)

then:

    # cdrecord -scanbus

This will tell you what devices you have on your system that are 
capable of writing CDs, and more importantly, their device IDs. The 
output will look something like this:

   Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J?rg 
Schilling
   Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
   Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
   scsibus0:
         0,0,0     0) 'TDK     ' 'CDRW5200B       ' '67U2' Removable 
CD-ROM
         0,1,0     1) *
         0,2,0     2) *
         0,3,0     3) *
         0,4,0     4) *
         0,5,0     5) *
         0,6,0     6) *
         0,7,0     7) *

Now you can supply the correct device to the cdrecord command:

   # cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0,0 eb-5.3.5-mc1-3c905c-tpo.iso

which will write the CD and eject it. For more help on cdrecord, check 
out the man page, or do a quick Google for "cdrecord burn iso howto" or 
something like that.

Now, I'm sure there are many other ways to do this, so if you prefer 
toast or xcdroast or nero, then by all means please use that.

We are always interested in getting bug reports. Please join the 
Etherboot-users mailing list if you want to report a bug, or 
Etherboot-developers if you'd like to help with the InCrEdIbLy 
StiMulatiNg [Note StUDlY CaPitALiZaTIon] project that is Etherboot!

The Etherboot home page is http://www.etherboot.org/

Have fun,

Marty

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