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Operating Systems Linux Debian creating a boot CD (iso file) to debian5 Post 302490696 by Corona688 on Tuesday 25th of January 2011 01:49:23 PM
Old 01-25-2011
I often use Gentoo minimal ISO's as rescue CDs. They boot to a generic root prompt from which you can mount your local disks and chroot into your own system. They support quite a lot of hardware. You don't boot into X this way, though.

The kernel doesn't need to be precisely the same unless you intend to load your own modules from disk. I can understand making custom boot floppies, since almost nothing but the most critical drivers will fit...

Last edited by Corona688; 01-25-2011 at 02:55 PM..
 

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Encode::Byte(3pm)					 Perl Programmers Reference Guide					 Encode::Byte(3pm)

NAME
Encode::Byte - Single Byte Encodings SYNOPSIS
use Encode qw/encode decode/; $greek = encode("iso-8859-7", $utf8); # loads Encode::Byte implicitly $utf8 = decode("iso-8859-7", $greek); # ditto ABSTRACT
This module implements various single byte encodings. For most cases it uses x80-xff (upper half) to map non-ASCII characters. Encodings supported are as follows. Canonical Alias Description -------------------------------------------------------------------- # ISO 8859 series (iso-8859-1 is in built-in) iso-8859-2 latin2 [ISO] iso-8859-3 latin3 [ISO] iso-8859-4 latin4 [ISO] iso-8859-5 [ISO] iso-8859-6 [ISO] iso-8859-7 [ISO] iso-8859-8 [ISO] iso-8859-9 latin5 [ISO] iso-8859-10 latin6 [ISO] iso-8859-11 (iso-8859-12 is nonexistent) iso-8859-13 latin7 [ISO] iso-8859-14 latin8 [ISO] iso-8859-15 latin9 [ISO] iso-8859-16 latin10 [ISO] # Cyrillic koi8-f koi8-r cp878 [RFC1489] koi8-u [RFC2319] # Vietnamese viscii # all cp* are also available as ibm-*, ms-*, and windows-* # also see L<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752010%28VS.85%29.aspx> cp424 cp437 cp737 cp775 cp850 cp852 cp855 cp856 cp857 cp860 cp861 cp862 cp863 cp864 cp865 cp866 cp869 cp874 cp1006 cp1250 WinLatin2 cp1251 WinCyrillic cp1252 WinLatin1 cp1253 WinGreek cp1254 WinTurkish cp1255 WinHebrew cp1256 WinArabic cp1257 WinBaltic cp1258 WinVietnamese # Macintosh # Also see L<http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html> MacArabic MacCentralEurRoman MacCroatian MacCyrillic MacFarsi MacGreek MacHebrew MacIcelandic MacRoman MacRomanian MacRumanian MacSami MacThai MacTurkish MacUkrainian # More vendor encodings AdobeStandardEncoding nextstep hp-roman8 DESCRIPTION
To find how to use this module in detail, see Encode. SEE ALSO
Encode perl v5.16.2 2012-08-26 Encode::Byte(3pm)
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