Redux: El Torito DVD & ETPREP (MS Question)

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About a year a half ago
Sean Liming and Brad Combs had a discussion here
under the title "El Torito DVD & ETPREP (MS Question)."
I was hoping that either of them (or someone else)
could provide a clarification of couple topics of
that conversation.

Sean Liming said:

I see someone is awake Nero6 allows you to split the DVD/CD into two
partitions so you can take full advantage of the space on the DVD. In
this
case, one partition is the El-Torito Partition (with limitation of the
CD)
and the second is the data partition (the rest of the DVD).

I ask how do you do this?
Are these the instruactions that slobodan bricin has
provided in serveral post?

Then Brad Combs and Sena Liming stated that:

.....of course there are the freeware ISO utilities that might be better
suited than HD2ISO.


suited than HD2ISO

I ask what utility would that be mkisofs? If so what are the specifics.

thanks
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Some update on this.
I used Nero 6.6.0.18 and used the technique that Sean Liming discusses
in his book.
The DVD would boot the system but I wasn't able to see the second
partition. On
a lark I put the DVD into another computer and the second data
partition was
visible. After some investigation I determined that that the dvd rom
drive on the target
system didn't support multisession DVDs, after replacing the dvd drive
with
a newer thad did support the mulisession and adding UDFS/CDFS drivers
to my project
I was able to boot from the dvd and see the data partition while in
Windows XP embedded.

As a second note I wonder if the open source tools that they mentioned
are the cdrtools.