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Date:	Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:15:03 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Utility CD

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In <40844B18.504@charter.net>, on 04/19/04
at 02:59 PM, Ray Davison said:

>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? 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.

>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.

>Look in the cdr-2_0 directory of:
>http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/cd/cd-r/cdrecord-2_00_os2.zip

Thanks. I have this, but have not gotten around to installing it. I'm
still running cdrecord 1.11.

Steven

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