help I can't read my burnt cd's

[Q-Gdoxl]

Hi I don't know if anyone has seen this before or not but I am really bummed about it. I recently spent some time downloading the install .iso and second disk .iso for ASP linux and wads hoping to install it today. One problem I burnt the .iso's to cd and when i try toaccess the cd in windows it says invlaid function. I can't access the disk :mad:

This happened with my mandrake and redhat .iso's also but when I was in win98 it would read them and in win2k not???

I tried using Nero and CDRWIN with the same result in both programs. It says recorded successfully, but when I access the disk in explorer it's a no go.

Is this just cheap disk? Is my writer going??

Does anyone know of a way to burn an .iso image to a directory instead of to a cdr?

HELP

[Q-Gdoxl]

I have just read about mounting .iso images in linux. Is this mainly for upgrading distros? Or can I install another distro in this way. I am running red hat 7 and could probably mount the .iso file but how is the install affected? or is it? This would be a temp solution to my inability to install ASP Linux due to bad cd's or burns.

Does installing this way just write over my existing ext2 partition with the new os?

[milanuk]

The ability to mount cd images for access as part of the filesystem is not AFAIK, a 'normal' way of using them for upgrade. At least, I don't think I've heard of it being done before, though it may be possible.

What I normally do is mount the iso images that I create like so:

mkdir -p /home/iso/krud/disk1

mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop krud-2001-01-02-disk1.iso /home/iso/krud/disk1

Then you can export the CD image via NFS to your lan like so:

/etc/exports:

/home/iso *.inet(ro)

and restart nfs w/ '/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs restart', and now you can export the cd image just like you would /mnt/cdrom, but w/o having to tie up your cd drive.

HTH,

Monte

[Q-Gdoxl]

ahh I see I only read a bit about mounting .iso seeing I dind't know I had this problem or I would have paid more attention to it then! hehe

I am first gunna try another CD rom I am not on a network it is a standalone computer so a network install doesn't sound too promissing!

I have reason to believe it is the media
thanks much tho!