Create a Windows bootable CD/DVD with mkisofs

Apr 23, '08 07:30:01AM

Contributed by: andreimo

To create a bootable Windows XP CD/DVD using your Mac, you need:

  1. mkisofs -- a Linux program to create ISO file systems. This hint covers the installation of mkisofs for another purpose.
  2. Your Windows boot.img file. It is the boot image from the original CD of Windows XP (2048 bytes).
Copy all files (boot.img, mkisofs, and all from the Windows CD) into one folder, then cd to that folder in Terminal. Once there, here is the correct command to create working bootable Windows CD:
./mkisofs -b boot.img -no-emul-boot -boot-load-seg 1984 -boot-load-size 4 -iso-level 2 -J -joliet-long -l -D -relaxed-filenames -N -V WinXP -v -x .DS_Store -o ../WinXP.iso .
[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]

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