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Posted: Aug. 07 2006,14:59 QUOTE

Does anyone know what boot.cat and isolinux.bin does? or how they affect the boot process of DSL?
is there a way to see what's in them?
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Posted: Aug. 07 2006,18:56 QUOTE

boot.cat is what allows the cd to be bootable.  I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I've heard that it is created by mkisofs when you build a bootable iso.

isolinux.bin is the bootloader program for the cd, as lilo or grub is used on harddrive installs.

They are both binary files, as far as I know, so I don't think you can really see what's in them unless you are proficient with bin/hex editors.

You'll probably find better info by searching the web for bootable CDs or something similar.


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