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NAME

       bootcdwrite - build a bootcd image from a running system

SYNOPSIS

       bootcdwrite [-s] [-c <config_directory>] [-only_floppy]

DESCRIPTION

       bootcdwrite  is	used  to  write  a standard Linux Installation to cd. The Installation must fit on one CD. It is possible to copy a system
       mounted per NFS to a local CD writer. It is also possible to only create an image of the CD for later use.

       It is important that the kernel can access the cdrom on the system, where you want to boot from the CD, without having to load any modules.
       (Because  to load modules from CD, the kernel must have access to CD before). If this is not the case you have first to create a new kernel
       with CD-support built in.

       If something goes wrong with bootcdwrite, the user will be given the chance to correct the problem. bootcdwrite starts many commands. If  a
       command exits with an exit code != 0, or if a command produces unknown output on stdout or stderr, the command and the output will be shown
       to the user.  He gets the option to exit, retry the failed command, or to ignore the failed command.

OPTIONS

       -s     means silent and canbe used to to disable interactive questions and to try to ignore errors.

       -c config_directory
	      change the default path of the directory including the configuration (/etc/bootcd).

       -only_floppy
	      only a bootfloppy (to boot an existing bootcd) has to be created.

       Currently no other options can be specified on command line. All configuration
	      has to be done in the config files.

FILES

       /etc/bootcd/bootcdwrite.conf
	      Configuration for bootcdwrite.

       /var/spool/bootcd/
	      Here the image of the CD which will be created will be stored temporarily by bootcdwrite. WARNING - You need  a  lot  of	disk-space
	      here. You can change this location with variable VAR in bootcdwrite.conf.

SEE ALSO

       Documentation in bootcdwrite.conf
       bootcdwrite.conf(5), bootcd(1), bootcdflopcp(1), bootcd2disk(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Bernd Schumacher <bernd.schumacher@hp.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

							   Wed Feb 23 00:00:00 EET 2000 						 BOOTCD(1)