[vox-tech] Burning ISO Images

[Mark K. Kim]

ISO images don't need anything special done to be bootable.  If you made
the ISO image yourself, you had to have some special things, though.

See if the CD has a boot.catalog file when you mount it.  It exists on
most bootable Linux CDs so whichever CD with that file should be the
bootable one (just a guess.)

Also, make sure your computer is set to boot from the CD before the hard
drive... but you knew that already...  Still, I'd test a different
bootable CD just for the heck of it.  Sometimes the weirdest things happen
in unexpected places.  Like that one time when [insert an interesting
story here]!

-Mark


On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Robert G. Scofield wrote:

> I can't seem to burn a bootable Linux iso image.
>
> I downloaded two of the three Mandrake 10.0 files.  I assume that CD 1
> is the bootable file.  But every time I burn a CD, the CD fails to
> boot.  Is there a secret as to how to get my downloaded file to boot?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Bob

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