[Tfug] bootable Sarge installer

[Paul Scott]

Jeremy D. Rogers wrote:

>I haven't used k3b yet, but I've burned the iso using xcdroast serveral
>times and had no problem booting. My understanding is that since its an
>"iso" it should contain everything it needs to be bootable. You might want
>to verify that k3b is actually burning the disk as an image and not
>creating a filesystem and then placing the the iso as a file on the cd (I
>hope that made sense), 
>  
>
That makes some sense:
dd tells me that the first 8000 (hex) bytes of sarge-i386-netinst.iso is 
zero (as well as the burned copy) unless there is something dumb about 
the following command:

dd if=/tmp/sarge-i386-netinst.iso count=100| hd | less

66+0 records in
66+0 records out
33792 bytes transferred in 0.140317 seconds (240826 bytes/sec)
00000000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
|................|
*
00008000  01 43 44 30 30 31 01 00  4c 49 4e 55 58 20 20 20  
|.CD001..LINUX   |
00008010  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  
|                |
00008020  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  44 65 62 69 61 6e 20 74  |        
Debian t|
00008030  65 73 74 69 6e 67 20 69  33 38 36 20 42 69 6e 2d  |esting i386 
Bin-|
00008040  31 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |1       
........|
00008050  00 df 00 00 00 00 df 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
|.ß....ß.........|

The CD looks like:

paul at joy:~/consulting$ dd if=/dev/hdc count=65|hd
00000000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
|................|
*
65+0 records in
65+0 records out
33280 bytes transferred in 0.191134 seconds (174119 bytes/sec)
00008000  01 43 44 30 30 31 01 00  4c 49 4e 55 58 20 20 20  
|.CD001..LINUX   |
00008010  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  
|                |
00008020  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  4b 33 62 20 64 61 74 61  |        K3b 
data|
00008030  20 70 72 6f 6a 65 63 74  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  | 
project        |
00008040  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |        
........|
00008050  af df 00 00 00 00 df af  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
|¯ß....߯........|
00008060  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
|................|

So maybe there are two problems.

I'll check xcd-roast,

Thanks,

Paul