BIOS Upgrade:Creating a Bootable CD from a Floppy Image

2007-11-09T10:07:35Z

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If You want to '''create a bootable CD/DVD from floppy image''' (for ex. to update BIOS in IBM ThinkPad T40) You should follow this steps: 

'''1.''' You need a floppy image for ex. '''''NAME_OF_FLOPPY_IMAGE.IMG''''' 
'''2.''' You need the '''''mkisofs''''' 
'''3.''' You need just to run following command: '''''mkisofs -pad -b NAME_OF_FLOPPY_IMAGE.IMG -R -o /home/your_user_name/cd.iso /patch/to/the/image/file/NAME_OF_FLOPPY_IMAGE.IMG''''' 

'''4.''' What is what: 

'''''-pad'''''                                                           Add padding to the end to make it readable on all CD players 
'''''-b NAME_OF_FLOPPY_IMAGE.IMG'''''           -b tells mkisofs which *floppy image* to use for booting. If the floppy image boots as a floppy,it will boot                                                                   as a CD. Note that there is no path prepended to NAME_OF_FLOPPY_IMAGE.IMG.                                                                   The NAME_OF_FLOPPY_IMAGE.IMG bootable image is assumed to be relative to the file being imagized,                                                                   in this case /patch/to/the/image/file/NAME_OF_FLOPPY_IMAGE.IMG 

'''''-R'''''                                                               Include Rock-Ridge extensions for readability everywhere 
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'''-o /home/your_user_name/cd.iso'''''               This defines the output file, an ISO9660 image ready for burning 

'''''/patch/to/the/image/file/NAME_OF_FLOPPY_IMAGE.IMG'''''           This is the file to put on the CD.

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