[clue-tech] how to make a bootable ISO from a factory recovery part?

[Mike Bean]

Yes sir, but after staring at it for the bulk of afternoon - I'm not so sure
it's possible anymore.  I think they somehow embedded it in the windows
partition, I can't even access the thing unless windows starts booting.
(don't even get me started, if I start ranting about @#$@#$@# tactics like
that, I won't stop.)

I'm starting to think the path of least resistance is to just shrink the
windows part down to close to minimum and ignore it.

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jim Ockers <ockers at ockers.net> wrote:

>  Mike,
>
> So you want to keep the factory recovery partition on a CD and then
> reformat the disk to install Linux on the whole thing?  I think those
> factory recovery partitions sometimes depend on special support from the
> BIOS.  Are you sure that your BIOS isn't integrally involved in the recovery
> procedure for your system?  My point is that maybe to "recover" the system,
> the recovery partition has to exist and be right where it is now; having the
> files on the CD wouldn't work if the BIOS is looking on the disk.
>
> Sorry I'm not more help,
> Jim
>
> Mike Bean wrote:
>
> Hi.  I'm experimenting with nuking my drive completely and loading linux
> across the whole thing, but I'm not really sure about proper technique.  I
> thought I'd ask the mailing list for advice.  Currently I'm experimenting
> with using clonezilla to image the partition and mkisofs to .iso the image
> files.  Although, frankly, I'd appreciate advice if I'm missing something
> obvious or if there's a better technique available.
>
> Bean
>
> ------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> clue-tech mailing listclue-tech at cluedenver.orghttp://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> clue-tech mailing list
> clue-tech at cluedenver.org
> http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://cluedenver.org/pipermail/clue-tech/attachments/20101023/c898a5cb/attachment.html