Hi All,

I'm new here and I hope I started off correctly by posting this in the right area and not re-posting something similar.

Basically I just need to boot Linux off of a CDROM first and later probably a USB flash drive and have it automatically run (dd) to re-image the system's HDD. I will need to put the 512MB image on the bootable media also to image from.

I write kernel drivers but this booting Linux from a CD is new to me and I just need someone to help push me in the right direction on how to created a simple bootable CDROM and USB flash disk to only run (dd). The only devices that I care about are an EHCI USB root hub and it's devices and the compact flash device that shows up as /dev/sda and of the course the USB CDROM. Other than that, Linux can be a stripped down distro.

Any help to get me pointed in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
AM