its my suggestion he' missing the mkisofs step that wrapped the iso in a bootable/fs/partition form.
you could never boot an iso image unless it was as above... On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 6:20 PM, jd1008 <jd1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 12/04/2016 01:03 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 19:05:54 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> >> On 12/03/2016 05:58 PM, jd1008 wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, I know gui apps work. >>>> But I am a very old unix/linux user and I have ALWAYS used dd to write >>>> iso images onto blank media, >>>> and then boot that media. >>>> Why is it that current linux versions of dd cannot write to blank >>>> media??? >>>> >>> Really? I've never heard of that and I can't imagine that working at >>> all. If you really must use the command line to do it, then cdrecord >>> was the tool to use, now called (or replaced by) wodim. But the >>> "cdrecord" name still works. >>> >> I dont know who wrote the above comment starting with "Really?", but > the responder obviously has not tried to write an iso file to blank media > using dd. I advise the responder to try it for him/her self. > >> Same thoughts here. One could use /dev/cdrom, which should be a link to >> /dev/sr0, for reading and creating an ISO image, but not for setting up >> the device to burn discs "magically". >> > Michael, Michael... > I have no idea what you mean by ' burn discs "magically" ' > Who said anything about magically. > > I have been using unix since the first att release to the universities in > the 70's, > and linux since 1988/1989. > Since the appearance of optical drives and media, I had always been > able to dd an iso file directly to the optical drive in the manner I > described. > It was not "magical". It was "actual" :) :) > > I was hoping that an old hand at this might shed some light as to why it > is not > currently possible to do so. > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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