How old/what speed is the cdrom device you are doing the install from? (apolgies if this has been covered as I have not been following this thread) I have an old unit which will either read some brands of cdrw unreliably or not all - could this be the problem (older cdroms aparently have lower powered lasers that are not up to recordable media)
Another gotcha with older units is "padding", bringing the records up to a defined boundary. This is normally a music format thing but does nero give you the option to do this? - some older units will not read it correctly unless it is "padded" And another - has the burn been "fixated", i.e., the session closed? This one should be an all or nothing thing, but some older units would not read the cd unless the session had been properly closed. The last two are "foibles" of the firmware on older cdrom drives, though I had an 1 yr old no-name el-cheapo laptop yesterday that suffered from the last one (running windoze 98) BillK On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 06:17, Gary Bond wrote: > Like I said I had the same problem and I solved it > with gcombust. The CD needs to be burned with an El > Torrito filesystem to become bootable. It took me a > few tries but I did get gcombust configured properly > and I burned my 8.1's on it. > > Hope this helps > > --- Gary Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had that problem as well. If you do a full install > > a > > special program is installed, I can't remember the > > name of it but it will burn iso's for you. I'm on my > > win98 side right now so I can't look it up but I'll > > try to get for you later tonite and post it for you. > > > > > > --- Brandon Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'll try doing it with the data tag, but here is > > the > > > site i got my > > > original information off of. > > > http://linuxdocs.org/sln/cdcommands/ > > > > > > the pertinant section: > > > " > > > Writing an ISO to a CD-ROM using cdrecord > > > > > > Assuming that all you want to do is create a CD > > > based on the ISO 9660 > > > file system standard, you can quickly burn the CD > > > using the following > > > command: > > > cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=0,0,0 src.iso > > > > > > src.iso is the source filename of the ISO you are > > > burning to the > > > CD-ROM." > > > > > > hmm. I'll let you all know the results of > > > cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=0,1,0 -data > > > mandrake_file.iso > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -Brandon > > > > > > On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 18:35, Salane King wrote: > > > > do cdrecord --scanbus > > > > first to determine the dev= numbers > > > > > > > > > >Brandon Dorman wrote: > > > > >> Hey guys, > > > > >> > > > > >> Finally got beta 3 cd 1 and cd 2 > > > downloaded! Joy of joys! > > > > >> However, I've never burned an iso before in > > > linux! I just now burnt both > > > > >> cd's only to disover now that they are still > > on > > > there as, ".iso" and > > > > >> aren't bootable or anything! Bummer. (I'm > > > assuming cd1 of even the > > > > >> mandrake beta would be bootable, after all > > I'm > > > sure they want to test the > > > > >> installer as well. :-)) My cdrecord options > > > look like this: > > > > >> cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=0,1,0 > > > MandrakeLinux-8.2beta3-CD1.i586.iso > > > > >> > > > > >> How can I modify it to "expand" the iso onto > > > the cd and allow me to boot > > > > >> from it as if I had bought it? Again, much > > > thanks. > > > > >> > > > > >> -Brandon > > > > > > > > > >"cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=0,1,0 -data > > > mandrake_file.iso" should do it... > > > > -- > > > > I made it a rule to forbear all direct > > > contradictions to the sentiments of > > > > others, and all positive assertion of my own. 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