On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, James Maes wrote:
>I am trying to burn a copy of RH5.2 that I downloaded from the net. I have
>tried to do it from a NT machine, but when I try to use that cd, the install
>tells me "The cd in the cdrom does not seem to contain a RedHat cd". I am
How do you try to copy the CD? You copy all files from CD to hard disk, and
then burn those? In that process the Rock Ridge extensions to the iso9660
filesystem image are lost, and all long filesnames are truncated.
I would guess that any modern burning software even for NToze would have
"copy CD-ROM" feature which would make exact copy of the filesystem, but I
have never used anything but Linux so I don't know.
>going to try to do it from Linux, what a good program that I could use to
>burn that cd, and do you all have any idea about how to make that cd good
>for a RH install?
On Linux you could copy the CD iso9660 to harddisk by:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image
and the burn it with either cdwrite or cdrecord. Cdrecord has much wider
hardware support, while cdwrite supports only SCSI burners.
I'm not sure if this makes the copied CD bootable though...
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
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