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[http://cdrecord.org cdrtools project]
by Joerg Schilling.
<Sourcesyntaxhighlight lang=bash>
prog="mkisofs"
</syntaxhighlight>
</Source>
 
Some quarrels with the GNU/Linux community caused a fork of cdrtools,
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is named '''genisoimage'''. You will find it installed as "mkisofs"
on many popular GNU/Linux distributions.
<Sourcesyntaxhighlight lang=bash>
prog="genisoimage"
</syntaxhighlight>
</Source>
 
An independent alternative to mkisofs is GNU's
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have it either as package "xorriso" or as part of "libisoburn".
GRUB2 script grub-mkrescue depends on xorriso-0.5.6 or newer.
<Sourcesyntaxhighlight lang=bash>
prog="xorriso -as mkisofs"
</syntaxhighlight>
</Source>
 
Even the Linux distributions that ship genisoimage considers it
[https://wiki.debian.org/genisoimage outdated and bugged]. If you are
not using the UDF or HFS hybrid featuresfeature of genisoimage, you should
probably use xorriso on these systems instead. For EFI, xorriso is
mandatory.
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as /tmp/youriso.iso:
 
<sourcesyntaxhighlight lang="bash">
$prog -U -b boot.img -hide boot.img \
-V "Your Name..." -iso-level 3 -o /tmp/youriso.iso /tmp/deploy
</syntaxhighlight>
</source>
 
Note that the ISOPATH for option '''-b''' is relative to the
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Windows version of mkisofs(through cdrtools) can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/win32.
The following command(inside cygwin) can be used to create bootable iso image without using floopy image.
<sourcesyntaxhighlight lang="winbatch">
mkdir -p $ISO_DIR/boot/grub
cp $GRUB_BIN/stage2_eltorito $ISO_DIR/boot/grub
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mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o bootcd.iso $ISO_DIR
</syntaxhighlight>
</source>
 
== See Also ==