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Old 02-19-2008, 07:09 AM
Trouble@Mill
 
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Default How to Maintain an El Torito Boot Image

OK, I'm in the last throws of upgrading all my machines, and when I've
finished I won't have any with a floppy drive any more.

Before that happens though, I'm planning on burning a couple of
'rescue' CDs that I can boot from. I have enough boot floppies lying
around, and I know how to extract them to provide the El Torito
(couldn't they have picked a better Mexican restaurant <G>) boot
image.

But my concern is, how can I maintain that image after the last floppy
drive hits /dev/null. I'm sure that at some time I'll need to add a
driver to config.sys or autoexec.bat (I know, but I do have a couple
of WinBlows machines for the wife and kids). But I will say, the DOS
image is IBM's PC DOS, not Micro$hafts. Go ReXX.

Are there any programs out there than can 'manipulate' the boot image.
Or am I worrying needlessly.

Also, has anyone any experience of using -eltorito-alt-boot. If so,
how does that work. Do you just specify another -b <bootimage> after
the switch. And if you want more, do you just keep repeating
-eltorito-alt-boot and -b <bootimage> ad nauseum.

Cheers,
Eddie

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