<div>On 5/4/07, Tomoki Taniguchi <<a href="mailto:tomoki.taniguchi@gmail.com">tomoki.taniguchi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> My laptop came with a recovery dvd. The recovery disc contains a harddrive image and restores it using some program (i think its called PQimage) i am trying to use that disc to install windows XP under VMware player. But the recovery disc does a hardware check to see if is the laptop for which it was built for. So I am have copied the contents of the disk to a folder. And trying to edit the automain.bat to skip the hardware check. I created an ISO image file using mkisofs mkisofs -o recovery-dvd.iso /edited-cd-file-dir i mounted this under vmware player. but the image file doesn't seem to be a bootable image. the root dir of the cd contains two files i feel are some how related to the issue BOOTCTG.BIN: data BOOTIMG.BIN: DOS floppy 1440k, x86 hard disk boot sector what options do i need to include in the mkisofs command to to make the image file bootable? </blockquote><div> That's totally off-topic on this list. Sorry dude. I'd guess you need el-torito bootable flags, but Google can help you more than I on this issue. </div> </div> -- ----)(----- Luis Mondesi *NIX Guru "Feliz el hombre que ha hallado sabiduria y el hombre que consigue discernimiento, porque el tenerla como ganancia es mejor que tener la plata como ganancia; y el tenerla como producto, [mejor] que el oro mismo" (Prov 3:13-14)