Making a boot-CD

[Ruutiveijari]

Is it possible to make a boot-CD with which install Linux thru FTP? My iBook doesn't have a floppydrive and I'm not right now able to install linux via CD completely.

So any way to do this? I'm using XP on my PC portable.

[fancypiper]

Any "Live Linux CD" such as Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/) will let you do that. Try a Google search for other live CDs.

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[TCaptain70]

I've never done it myself (but I will soon), but check out this page (http://www.geocities.com/eaglelinux/)

Its for a CD based distro, but they have instructions on making bootable CDs...

Hope this helps you.

[sharth]

You can. in cdrecord (for a *nix system), you can add a -b (i think) flag and choose a bootable floppy image and append it to the burnt cd. It's either with cdrecord or mkisofs... I think cdreord...

[Ruutiveijari]

Seems like I was a bit sketchy with my choice of words.

I meant installing the Linux on my iBook. Seems like all those Live Linux softwares only support ix86 based systems. Any PPC ones out there?

EDIT: Just to clarify the situation a bit more: I have two comps. One an iBook rev. B with no OS. The other a XP 1600+ laptop with a CD-RW and XP. I have ONE CD-R and that already has some stuff on it but I'm able to make it bootable. So I need to make THIS CD-R under XP bootable so, that I can start my iBook with that CD and install Linux via FTP :)