If the .iso is of a bootable CD-ROM all you have to do is write
the bits to disk as-is.
The first 1.44 or 2.88 MB of the disk image is basically a DOS-type
floppy image that gets booted which then boots the CD-ROM (El
Torito format).
I don't think so. IIRC, El Torito calls for a special
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:32:50PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On Oct 3, 2004, at 21:51, Michael ODonnell wrote:
so when I
draggeddropped the Debian ISO onto the CD it
was just copied onto the CD as plain old data.
If the .iso is of a bootable CD-ROM all you have to do is write the
On Oct 3, 2004, at 9:51 PM, Michael ODonnell wrote:
I'm working with a laptop that has a basic
XP Home installation on it and I'm trying to
create a bootable Debian CDROM.
Googled this article on the Microsoft site:
Do you need to create ISO image files? As the name suggest, these
files are
There are freeware burners out there that can do the trick:
http://www.download.com/Burn4Free-CD-DVD/3000-2646-10323175.html?tag=lst-0-10
Scott
Christopher Schmidt wrote:
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:32:50PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On Oct 3, 2004, at 21:51, Michael ODonnell wrote:
so when I
Given the responses so far it sounds like my take on
the situation was correct: you can't burn CDROMs with
the software included in a basic XP Home installation,
but various 3rd-party packages are available.
I thought I'd heard that a basic XP Home setup was able
to burn bootable CDROMs as part
Windows XP definitely will not burn .iso images without 3rd party software
-Neal
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On Oct 3, 2004, at 21:51, Michael ODonnell wrote:
so when I
draggeddropped the Debian ISO onto the CD it
was just copied onto the CD as plain old data.
If the .iso is of a bootable CD-ROM all you have to do is write the
bits to disk as-is.
The first 1.44 or 2.88 MB of the disk image is basically
