Thanks, Jim, FireBurner did the job! BTW, www.fireburner.com, in case
anyone was wondering...
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jim Lyons wrote:
> At 12:44 PM 05/03/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >I downloaded the 8.0 isos last night, and want to burn them to disc, but
> >I'm not quite sure how to go about it. I have to do it from the Windont
> >side of my PC, as my CD-RW won't work under 7.2. The CD burning software I
> >have in Windows is a bundle called just!burn, in which I'd use just!data
> >to burn them. Now, I mentioned to a friend that I understood I couldn't
> >just burn it straight to disc; that there was some settings that had to
> >be taken care of, but having never done this before, I didn't know what
> >they were. He told me just to make sure I set it so the CD would be
> >bootable. Well, I looked all about in just!data, and couldn't find any
> >setting to make it bootable. I'm assuming, BTW, that he didn't mean to set
> >my BIOS so that I could boot from my CDR (I already can do that). So is
> >anyone familiar with this software, and if so, what do I have to do? My
> >coaster count is at one so far...
> >
> >
> >peace,
> >
> >Rog
> >Registered Linux user #19071
> >
> >
> >
>
> Rog,
>
> I've just been through all this with .ISO files and it's a minefield.
> First, ther'e the catch 22 that much of the info I found was for Linux but
> I needed to burn the images in Windows (obviously, if I'm to get Linux
> going in the first place). Eventually after several days on the web I
> found FireBurner (just do a search) which is a very compact, stand alone,
> time limited program which took an .ISO file and turned it into a bootable CD.
>
> Have a look at it and get back to me if you have any questions.
>
> Now if I could only get Mandrake 7.2 to recognize my network card (any of
> them !!) ...
>
> Jim Lyons
>
>
>
peace,
Rog
Registered Linux user #19071
