On Tue Oct 10, 2000 at 02:04:52PM -0400, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: > Now I've d/l 'd an ISO from www.e-smith.org and I'd like to burn the iso > to a disk but all the documentation assumes one is using M$. I've tried > to figure out the gtoaster supplied with LM 7.1 but is doesn't seem to > write an actual bootable disk. Every thing I've tried simply copies the > iso image to the drive and leaves only the e-smith-blah-blah.iso file. > > EasyCD creator has a function to create the real file(s) and directory > structure but this is M$ only and I don't have that available. (ok, > maybe an old version of 3.1 but it's all gone) > > I'm sure it's simple but it's eluding me at the moment cdrecord -v -speed=x -dev=x,x,x -data /path/to/esmith.iso Change the dev statement as appropriate (if you don't know the dev number run "cdrecord --scanbus" to find it). And change the speed to an appropriate value as well. The ISO needs to be built as bootable... the actual writing does not make it bootable. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net // Danen Consulting Services www.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org // MandrakeSoft, Inc. www.linux-mandrake.com 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux uptime: 2 days 15 hours 17 minutes.
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