I see, that is much clearer now, thanks alot folks, well I'm off to do some
burning...
cheers, paul.
Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:
> The iso image already is bootable so you should be able to just use the iso
> cd. I've just downloaded nero to try out on win2000 (because the idiots at
> Adaptec don't feel they should have to support their software with win2k),
> but with easy cd creator under win98 you just double click on the iso file
> and it does the rest. With nero I believe that the option to make a
> bootable cd is if you copy raw data and specify an 'image file' (such as
> cdrom.img found under the /images directory) to be burned onto the root
> directory. The idea behind the iso image being premade is so that you can
> just put that file on a disk and all the preparation work has been done for
> you.
>
> Mike
>
> hey,
> I just downloaded the ISO files for Mandrake 7.1 (650MB and 340MB) now
> how exactly do I burn them? I'm using Nero software which give's you an
> option to burn CD (ISO) or CD (Boot), etc. my system supports the boot
> from CD, I'm just not sure how burning an ISO file on a CD will make it
> bootable...
> cheers,
> paul.
