Chuck Shirley wrote: > > Hi Experts, > > I have a cooker machine, a laptop, that I want to make a fresh install > on, but there is a problem, it has no floppy drive. Rather than make > a set of CDs, I want to put the hd.image on a cdr, and boot that. The > laptop is running a stale cooker distribution, and has a current mirror, > but has nearly 500 stale packages installed. I am not a cdrecord ninja, > and when I tried to make the bootable disc with xcdroast, I failed even > though I told it to make a bootable cd with the hd.img boot disk image. > > Has anyone a clue how, or even if, this can be done?
the Iso has everything you should need on it. I burn Iso's from the command line and they always work. I use this command from the directory where the iso is : cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=1,0,0 [and the iso's name here without brackets] whatever.iso if you don't know how to find what dev=<numbers here> type in a terminal cdrecord -scanbus the 3 numbers beside the reference to the burner are the ones to put there. speed= whatever you burner handles without errors or it's lowest would be safe. and example of complete line is : cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=1,0,0 MandrakeLinux-9.0beta1-CD1.i586.iso hope this helps some. -- Mike McNeese ������������������������������������������������������������������������ currently running Mandrake versions 8.0 and 8.2 Linux registered user # 248955 ������������������������������������������������������������������������ "If obstacles are all we see, then we've lost sight of our goal!"
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