Chapter 6. Making a Bootable LRP CDROM

Table of Contents

Important Considerations
Creating a CDROM Boot Image
Getting Packages From CDROM

Important Considerations

There are many things to consider in creating a bootable CDROM using LRP.

  • Packages cannot be loaded from the boot medium, since the boot medium is a floppy disk image artificially loaded into memory via PC BIOS INT 13. Only syslinux, the Linux kernel, and root.lrp (the root filesystem loaded by the Linux kernel) are available.

  • Packages might be stored on the CDROM in a directory. It must be determined if the LRP variant used supports access to packages in directories.

  • The configuration files on the boot disk are fixed and unchangeable. To permit changeable configurations, access to a real floppy is required.

These considerations must be taken into account when creating a bootable CDROM.