I currenlty have a fully functional Corporate Modboot disk with
- Bart's PE (Most of the plugins and some other ones)
- ERD 2003 (With 32 MB Ramdrive)
- O & O BlueCon XXL
- Disk Commander.
- Acronis products
and a few small single disk images..

I tried using Cdimage with the following arguments to reduce the size of the output by encoding duplicate files only once.
When booted off a CD with the recreated ISO file (After burning it as an Image with Nero)


So my question is...

- Is it possible to use cdimage with the BCD source tree to create a bootable CD which will encode duplicate files only once to reduce space and still rely on isolinux to make all current options available to boot off from?
- If yes then is there any other preprocessing I need to do? Any post processing?
- Are the command line arguments correct for cdimage?

Happy New Year Everyone.

Updated [Jan 2, 2004]

- I changed the command line arguments and modified it to the following and received the same exact error message/result.


- I opened the fully functioning ISO of bcd.iso in UltraISO and checked it properties and then put a checkmark in the Optimize field. This optimized the Image and now the final size of the ISO shrunk down by about 200 MB.

- I burned that to a CD-RW and booted off it and received the exact same error message.

Any suggestions? Anyone?

This problem occurs when you use the CDImage program to create the ISO file which uses the ISOLINUX bootloader, the ISOLinux needs a data structure called boot-info-table to be patched in order to work correctly, which CDImage doesn't do.

But you can use the MKISOFS program and keep the size of the ISO file optimized by:
1. Download the DFL program from http://bootcd.narod.ru
2. Run the program on the folder containing the CD contents (use the "link -d" parameters).
3. Create the CD using MKISOFS and use the parameters " -follow-links -cache-inodes"

Thank you DoctorXP for your assistance in this matter.

Here's where I'm currently.

1. My current Source Tree for CDShell is 789 MB.
2. I used cdimage with it the resulting iso size is 650 MB
2. I used dfl to and used mkisofs to compile the ISO, resulting size is 680 MB.

Problems happen with the iso which was made using dfl and mkisofs as BartPE and other PE related stuff doesn't work correct due to various MSv*.dll files get linked and have problems executing under the PE environment.

After a lot of fiddling around I got it isolinux based stuff to work as well as using cdimage to create the iso.

Here's the command line arguments i use for my cdimage.


In the above commandline you can ignore -w1 and -yd as they're just there to hide things in verbose mode.

Thanks again for all your help.

@ByteCoder:

Does your BlueCon boot directly to the console or do you have to press F10?

Mind sharing your info on how you added it?