How to remaster 3.4 w/ no boot.img?

[mzilikazi]

I found this on the mailing list so I thought I'd put itin here. Surely someone will be looking for it.

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 05:24:19PM +0200, Martin Herweg wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I tried to remaster knoppix 3.4 (CeBit)
> with the instructions from LinuxMagazin 03/04
>
> the last step fails, because on the CD there is no
> boot.img anymore:
>
> mkisofs -J -T -v -r -c KNOPPIX/boot.cat -b KNOPPIX/boot.img -o
> knoppix_custom.iso KNOPPIX_CD
>
>
> which options , which filename do I need instead of
> boot.img ?

-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat

Regards
-Klaus Knopper

[arkaine23]

It's in the newest remastering guide here and also in the custom kernel guide- cebit and the new 3.4 use isolinux instead of syslinux, so the booting is no longer done with floppy emulation.

[mzilikazi]

It's in the newest remastering guide here and also in the custom kernel guide-

Thanks I did not know that. I don't rely too much on documentation remaining here as it is always getting haked up by someone. For example, here's what you get when you click the Docs link:

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L O V E

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A L W A Y S & F O R E V E R!

Yeah that's helpful.........you can't even get to the custom kernel howto.
I guess that means that Knoppix really IS mainstream if the silly little script kiddies have nothing better to do that write junior high love notes in the wiki.