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How do I make my own live linux boot CD?

ADIOS FAQ
The ADIOS development kit (adk) uses a Makefile which you copy from /mnt/cdrom/adk to /root or whatever directory you want to use. The adk software assumes you have already installed the ADIOS kernel on you linux system. This can be done using the hidden commands from the run options menu, read the notes on how to install ADIOS manually by resizing an existing NTFS partition from http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios/ntfsresizing.html OR You could download the ADIOS kernel source code from http://os.cqu.
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Can I boot Linux from a CD-ROM?

SGI TPL View (CDROM-HOWTO)
Most Linux distributions support directly booting a Linux kernel from CD as an alternative to a boot floppy. This requires a bootable CD and ROM BIOS and CD-ROM drive which supporting booting from CD. The latest version of mkisofs supports creating such disks using the El Torito standard for bootable CDs.
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How do I get Linux/Windows/BeOS to boot?

I-MOD2 Technical Frequently Asked Questions
Remember, the IO is basically a standard pentium class PC with a standard BIOS and a 16MB flash memory card. Please read some of the messages in the "Technical" area on the I-Appliance Discussion Forum BBS, you will find many posts there talking about different OS's and how other installations went.
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Can I boot linux from an EXTERNAL harddisk that I want to make only for Linux?

Linux/m68k for Macintosh - The Linux/m68k for Macintosh FAQ
Yes, and this is only a bit more complicated. You'll need to read the bits on installing, later. Still, follow the steps above to make sure that Linux will work for you in the first place.
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How can I boot into Linux?

Linux/m68k for Macintosh - The Linux/m68k for Macintosh FAQ
Booting into Linux is easy, all you need is a recent copy of Penguin (the booter) and a kernel. (Both of which can be found on this site under "Downloads".) Before you can boot into Linux, you will need to turn off Virtual Memory and you may need Mode32 (see the section on Mode32, later). Start up Penguin, select the kernel that you want to boot from in the configuration screen, and then use the boot option from the file menu. If it works, you'll get a message about rarp requests.
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edit] My computer cannot boot from CD. Can I install Ark Linux from a floppy disk?

Ark Linux FAQ - ArkWiki
Ark Linux does not support installation from a floppy disk; however, there is some free software available which will allow you to install Ark Linux from CD even if your BIOS does not support booting from CD-ROM. The easiest way to create a btmgr floppy is simply getting the FreeDOS boot image, it contains btmgr and allows you to boot from the Ark Linux CD. You can write the image to a floppy using dd if=fdos1440.img of=/dev/fd0 obs=128k in Linux, or [rawrite] in DOS/Windows.
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How can I make a DVD using linux?

Internet Archive Frequently Asked Questions
Archive user sent in the following instructions for creating DVDs on a linux system: To do this under linux from the command line: This requires a few common programs. Using any modern package distribution of linux installing these should be quite simple. Done! You should now have a folder called "DVD_folder" with your movie. You can create an ISO or BIN image with mkisofs:
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Why won't Linux boot on my machine?

Linux/m68k for Macintosh - The Linux/m68k for Macintosh FAQ
You looked at the status web page and your machine was supported. But it just won't boot! Why not? Well, there are a few common problems that cause most of these failures. The most common one is that you're trying to use an ancient kernel that doesn't properly support your hardware. You should always be using the latest kernel, unless you have a really good reason not to. Other common problems are less obvious.
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Can I boot Linux from a compressed partition?

No. (Older dmsdos versions supported it, but this feature has been given up when the CVF-FAT interface was introduced. Well, the documentation always warned ... ) What can I say. You decided to use compressed partitions - now you are experiencing one of their greatest disadvantages. But dmsdos has some special tricks for you in this case. You can..
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How Do I Configure Linux at Boot Time?

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Either by typing the kernel arguments at the BOOT lilo: prompt, or by adding an ''append='' directive to the /etc/lilo.conf file; for example: At the LILO prompt (example only): BOOT lilo: parport=0x3bc,7 parport=0x3bc,none serial=0x3f8,4 serial=0x2f8,3 If you modify the /etc/lilo.conf file, be sure to run the lilo command to install the new configuration.
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How do i create a boot disk under Linux?

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The floppy might have bad sectors on it, use a different floppy (one w/o bad sectors). See previous for creating a Linux boot-disk under DOS. See Q. 52 for creating bootdisks. Yes! This card is supported under Linux but the drivers are not currently part of RHL 6.2. You can get the source from here: http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html
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How Can I Boot Linux from MS-DOS?

Compatibility with Other Operating Systems
If LILO doesn't work, and if the machine has MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows, you may be left with a computer that won't boot. This can also happen on an upgrade to your Linux distribution. Re-installing LILO is the last thing that the installation does. So it is vitally important when installing or upgrading Linux on a dual boot machine, to have a MS-DOS or Windows rescue disk nearby so you can FDISK -MBR. Then you can go about using LOADLIN.EXE instead of LILO.
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How do I boot FreeBSD and Linux from LILO?

Disks, Filesystems, and Boot Loaders
If you have FreeBSD and Linux on the same disk, just follow LILO's installation instructions for booting a non-Linux operating system. Very briefly, these are: Boot Linux, and add the following lines to /etc/lilo.conf: other=/dev/hda2 table=/dev/hda label=FreeBSD the above assumes that your FreeBSD slice is known to Linux as /dev/hda2; tailor to suit your setup). Then, run lilo as root and you should be done. If FreeBSD resides on another disk, you need to add loader=/boot/chain.
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Can Linux Boot from MS-DOS?

Booting the OS
If LILO doesn't work, and if the machine has MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows, you may be left with a computer that won't boot. This can also happen on an upgrade to your Linux distribution. Re-installing LILO is the last thing that the installation does. It is vitally important when installing or upgrading Linux on a dual boot machine, to have a MS-DOS or Windows rescue disk nearby so you can FDISK -MBR. Then you can go about using LOADLIN.EXE instead of LILO.
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How do I make a boot disk in Windows XP?

Windows XP FAQ Frequently Asked Questions - Bootstrike.Com
Go to Explorer, insert a floppy disk, right-click on the A Drive, click Format, check Make System disk and click OK.
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Q9. Is MEPIS Linux on a Live-CD like Knoppix or is it a fully featured installable version of Linux?

General FAQ | MEPIS
A9. The MEPIS bootable CD is both. It boots into Linux like a Live-CD and then you use the acclaimed MEPIS Installation utility to install it on a hard drive.
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Why is there no CD for Linux?

SoftwareFor.org: Home of Software for Starving Students
Our experience has been that people who use Linux are usually already aware of the open source and free software available to them (whereas OS X and Windows users are, as a whole, often less educated about such things). Additionally, we doubt that we could do a better job than existing Linux offerings like Edubuntu. ^ return to top
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How do I make an audio CD from an MP3?

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Use the software that came with your burner. Specify that the burn will be an "audio CD". Drag the mp3(s) to your layout. That's it. Note that you will get a maximum of 74 or 80 minutes of audio on each CD-R; this boils down to two 30-minute shows or one 60-minute show. Use 74min CD-R media for maximum playability. Some players have problems with CD-R, more with 80min media, and still more with CD-RW.
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How can I make an audio CD of an MP3 show?

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That's really beyond the scope of what I'm trying to do here, but you can generally do it with the software that came with your CD burner. There are two basic types of CDs you can burn, data and audio. You want audio in this case. Note that you may have to convert the MP3 file to .wav before your CD burning software will see it.
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How can I get my system to boot up from a SCSI CD-ROM drive?

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You have to press the Del button to go in the BIOS and then go to BIOS FEATURES SETUP to adjust the Boot sequence to SCSI, and also you have to go into SCSI BIOS to adjust the CD-ROM Boot function to "Enable" mode. - Go to Top
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How can I boot from CD-ROM?

MP979 FAQ
First, you should have a bootable CD and go to BIOS setup and go to "BOOT", you must place "ATAPI CD-ROM Drive" in item #1.
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You can set your computer to boot from a CD-ROM (or other type of optical drive) in your computer's BIOS (Basic Input Output System). To get to into your computer's BIOS, restart your computer and keep pressing the Delete key until you get to a screen with menu. For some types of motherboards, this key will be different. If the Delete key doesn't work for you, you may need to check your motherboard's manual to find the correct key.
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To boot from the CD-ROM, the master HDD must be installed first. Also a bootable CD must be used. System will be stagnant about 30 seconds and then try to boot from HDD if an unbootable CD disc is used.
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My computer won't boot from CD. What should I do?

Downloading FAQ - Knoppix Documentation Wiki
Look in your computer's BIOS (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS) (on many computers you need to push the "delete" or F1 key during the POST) to see whether it is set to boot from CD. If this is already set, your computer may not be able to read the CD (some notebooks have problems with black-coated CD's, for example). Some computers will only use the new BIOS settings after a hard reset. Other resources are this page which explains the PC BIOS (http://www.rlrouse.com/bios.
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If Linux is free, where do companies have the right to make money off selling CD's?

Corporate Frequently Asked Questions
This is not possible. Because of the legal terms of the GPL, for Linux to be distributed under a different copyright would require the consent of all 200+ persons that have ever contributed to the Linux source code. These people come from such a variety of places, that such a task is logistically infeasible. Even if it did happen, new developers would probably rally in defiance and continue work on the kernel as it is.
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The CD/DVD fails to boot! / From which CD should I boot?

Frequently Asked Questions about Debian CDs
If your Debian CD fails to boot, first ensure that you have correctly written it to the CD-R(W) medium - please see the explanation above. Additionally, please check whether your BIOS is set up to boot from the CD/DVD drive.
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Why doesn't the Linux kernel have a graphical boot screen like $toomuch OS?

The linux-kernel mailing list FAQ
ADB) Because it doesn't need one. You can add that feature to the boot loader code, if you want to. The Linux kernel has no graphics primitives, just like any UNIX kernel.
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