[ale] Fedora 4 .iso's

[Christopher Fowler]

On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 20:59 -0400, Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> I've downloaded the Fedora iso's from the torrent and loop mounted them 
> so I could copy the dirs and files to separate directorues on my desktop 
> machine.
> I then created CD's from each of the directories but can not get the 
> burned CD #1 to be bootable on any machine.

So basically you did this?

# mount -o loop /tmp/FC4-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/loop
# mkdir -p /tmp/FC4/d1
# cp -dpvR /mnt/loop/* /tmp/FC4/d1
# mkiosfs -o /tmp/FC4/d1.iso -r -J /tmp/FC4/d1


If so you forgot to tell mkisofs or k3b that you want a bootable
CD.