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Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:16:04 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Utility CD

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
>>Thank you. That is an an answer for the question I asked. Now I will
>>try to phrase the question in such a way that I can get actual
>>information.
>
> Good plan. :-)
>
>
>>I used BOOTABLE.CMD to produce a bootable VFDISK. I used IMAGE.EXE to
>>create OS2UTIL.IMG. Below is my attempt to get an ISO.
>
>
> Refresh my memory. On Saturday, you said you did not understand the
> Bootable documentation well enough to use it and you were using some other
> tool. Are you now able to use Bootable comfortably?
>
> Why are you using image.exe?

On the advise of Zsolt Kadar.

> Bootable already contains support to use savedskf to create the image file. Of course as long as image.exe does a
> sector for sector copy, it should work.

They appear to produce identical files.
>
>>mkisofs -v -b OS2UTIL.IMG -o OS2UTIL.ISO
>>mkisofs 2.0 (i386-pc-os2_emx)
>>mkisofs: Missing pathspec.
>>Usage: mkisofs [options] file...
>
>
>>Below is the only reference I fint to "pathspec", and I don't know what
>>it is asking for.
>
> You are telling mkisofs to build an empty CD and it is complaining.
> Naming the boot file with -b is not sufficient to specify content. You
> must provide at least one file/directory name. file... is not in brackets
> to indicate at least one value is required.
>
> The file/directory can be anything you find useful. Why not copy your
> command line tools directory to the CD. For example:
>
> mkisofs -v -b OS2UTIL.IMG -o OS2UTIL.ISO d:/tools
>
> Don't forget that mkisofs likes forward slashes.

What I want is the contents of the VFDISK, which is supposedly contained
in the IMG. What does that have to do with a tools or any other
unrelated directory?

Ray

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