bootable cd problem

[kedman]

Originally posted by michaelk

What CD writing software did you use? Did you select the option to burn from iso? Look at the CD you burned is it just an ISO file or a bunch of directories and files. If not, you need to reburn the CD.

HI All
I have down loaded the 3 iso's ( RH9) and when I burn them to disk (xcdroast) they wont boot but i can see the iso.
The docs say to select a 'boot img' but when you use browse to the iso image, you cant select the boot.img.
Do i have to copy the iso to another place on my HD?
Cheers
All
Kedman

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by kedman
HI All
I have down loaded the 3 iso's ( RH9) and when I burn them to disk (xcdroast) they wont boot but i can see the iso.


You can see the single iso on the cd or files and directories?

If a single iso, then you did not burn them correctly as a image.

[kedman]

HI
Thanks for that
I have trawled that site and the Xcdroast docs re this.
They seem to not quite have this right. Is an ISO if copied with RAW96 bootable?
I assume raw just copies the data blocks so the Resulting CD should be bootable.
This isnt happening and I cant get the boot.img from the ISO.
Any ideas
kedman

[michaelk]

If you just want the one file then mount the iso file. Replace cd.iso with the actual RH 1st CD iso file name and /mnt/iso to some existing mount directory or create one.

mount -o loop -t iso9660 cd.iso /mnt/iso

Then you can dd the image to a floppy disk.

It is also possible to install RH without burning the iso files. You still need to create the boot floppy. I think the iso's need to be on a vfat, ext2 or ext3 formated partition.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by kedman
HI
Thanks for that
I have trawled that site and the Xcdroast docs re this.
They seem to not quite have this right. Is an ISO if copied with RAW96 bootable?
I assume raw just copies the data blocks so the Resulting CD should be bootable.
This isnt happening and I cant get the boot.img from the ISO.
Any ideas
kedman

XCDRoast has documentation included with their packages or on www.xcdroast.org that explains how to correctly burn a iso image.