Re: makeisofs question

From: Tim Wunder (twunder_at_REMOVEcomcast.net)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 08:36:08 -0400

Someone claiming to be 7 wrote:

> Hi,
> Half a newbie here.
> I'm trying to make a multi-bootable iso disk.
> In grub the cd is referred to as
> root (cd)
> All fine and it works ok.
> But i now have a different problem - two identical directories
> have different content. Renaming is an option but end up with the
> need to recode other's work. Don't want to do that.
>
> One simple way is to have the equivalent of partitions
> in a CD.
>
> I was wondering if there was any way to have multi sessions
> or other options so that i can say something like
>
> root (cd0,0)
>
> and root (cd0,1)
>
> to separate out the CD into mutliple partitions?

Maybe, I've burned enhanced CDs before, could apply the same idea to two
seoarate data partitions. Look here for clues:
http://www.linux-sxs.org/hardware/enhancedcd.html
a guide that was loosely based on:
http://users.dslextreme.com/%7Ecraig.lawson/linux_notes/cds.html

hth,
Tim 

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