mkisofs & cdimage - some questions

[dlevens]

Hey everyone, was hoping someone here could clear things up for me.

I am trying to combine two ultimate boot cds. One is the original UBCD the other is the UBCD4Windows.

I am playing around with mkisofs and cdimage and had a few questions:

1. Curious which program everyone here would recommend as the ideal way to build the iso?

2. Where can I download the latest version or mkisofs as there seems to be many different versions out there?

3. Is the cdimagegui beta 3 the one to use if using cdimage?

There is a thread started on how to possibly accomplish this but I ran into some issues with making the iso portion.

So far I have come up with this command line for cdimage 2.47 but not sure if this is the best way to do it.

cdimage.exe -l"UBCDCombo" -h -n -b"D:\Boot CDs\ComboUBCD\ComboUBCD\boot\loader.bin" -o -m "D:\Boot CDs\ComboUBCD\ComboUBCD" "D:\Boot CDs\ComboUBCD\iso\comboubcdv52.iso"

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,

Dennis Levens

[MCT]

i prefer CDIMAGE vs Mkisofs

i think mkisofs has a sourceforge homepage

i prefer commandline without a gui (i have mine set 2 just rightclick my folder, select bootiso & im done

[MHz]

Switches look fine. You could even add the -x switch, which does the autocrc.

Cdimagegui just extracts the dos version of cdimage into a temp directory and the gui sends the commands to it. So it is exactly the same as using commandline.

Some people prefer mkisofs only because it is opensource. But cdimage has proven itself to me over and over to perform, so is my favorite.

[dlevens]

Thanks for the input. So far I have had no luck with either mkisofs or cdimage. Best I have gotten so far is using cdimage, which allows me to boot the CD to the UBCD menu and I can choose the Windows UBCD from the menu and it acutally boots but the INSERT Knoppix which uses ISOLINUX no longer works. Says it cannot find INSERT filesystem

So far this is what I am using for cdimage

cdimage.exe -l"UBCDCombo" -h -n -b"D:\BootCDs\ComboUBCD\ComboUBCD\boot\loader.bin" -o -m "D:\BootCDs\ComboUBCD\ComboUBCD" "D:\BootCDs\ComboUBCD\iso\comboubcdv52.iso"

Combining these two UBCDs seems like such a powerful CD, curious why there are not others who have done it yet.

Still trying,

Dennis