Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a computer readable medium for writing fixed packet data to create a bootable optical disc. Each of the fixed packets includes a set of data blocks with a set of link blocks separating a pair of consecutive fixed packets. A first packet is written onto a re-writable compact disc including a boot record that has a pair of pointers for pointing to locations of associated boot catalogs. One pointer is used to point to a location of an associated boot catalog. An emulated boot image of a source medium is created for the re-writable compact disc. For a first device that is capable of reading the link blocks, a first boot catalog is written in a second packet where the first boot catalog includes a pointer to a location of a first boot image that can be executed to boot up a computer system.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a computer readable medium for writing incremental packet data to create a bootable optical medium. In this method, a first track is reserved in an optical medium. Additionally, a first track gap after the first track is reserved in the optical medium. After reserving the first track and first track gap, a boot catalog and a boot image are written onto a second track in the optical medium. The boot catalog includes a first pointer to the location of the boot image. Further, the boot catalog and the boot image are written so that the boot image is written contiguously without interruption. Preferably, the second track is written in a track-at-once mode to ensure that the boot image is written without interruption. Alternatively, the second track and the second track may be written in a streaming mode in a single packet after writing the first track and track gap.