[NTLUG:Discuss] How do I set the load segment to 07C0 in K3B?

[Darin W. Smith]

On 04 Aug 2003 16:11:40 -0500, Thomas Cameron 
<thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:

> I am on a RH9 laptop as we speak.  So how do I define the load segment
> to 07C0 with no emulation and 4 loaded sectors in XCDRoast?  I have
> looked and see no such settings.
>

Well, you are asking a Linux question, sort of.  You are asking "how do I 
do in Linux what some instructions written for a Windows program tell me to 
do?"

How do you know you have to explicitly set these settings?  I suspect you 
got your instructions from the "bink" website, or similar, which show these 
settings on Nero.  They are apparantly the default settings and you just 
leave them be.

Now, I don't even know what those control, but read on.  AFAIK, a bootable 
CD is just an ISO9660 CD with a floppy image on it, and a special header 
that any BIOS compliant with "El Torito" knows where to find.

You can make bootable DOS/95/98 CD's on Linux by dd'ing a boot floppy and 
using that as the boot image that you feed to cdrecord to make it bootable.

It seems to me that as long as you have the proper boot image, you can just 
feed that to the CD-burner of your choice, and if MS is adhering to "El 
Torito" (fat chance) then it should just work.

Since most of the GUI cd-burning programs are really just frontends to 
mkisofs and cdrecord, why not "man mkisofs" and "man cdrecord" to see what 
it says about bootable CDs?  If worst came to worst, you should be able to 
do it on the command-line.

For example, mkisofs's man page says:
" -boot-load-seg segment_address        Specifies the load  segment  
address  of  the  boot image for no-emulation "El Torito" CDs."

So you have to use it with -no-emul-boot.

Those options aren't present on most (any) of the Linux GUI burning 
programs because they are intended to support the most common tasks 
(creating a ISO9660 cd, nothing fancy or weird about it).

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