Rob, I just installed and tried out xcdroast as a result of your message. I cannot find the option for burning an iso image.
Firstly, have you checked the md5sum's of the iso's. This is most important given the download problems you had. Secondly you must not just copy the iso to a disk, It is an image of the cd, ie a byte for byte copy, not a big file for simply dumping on the cd. See the docos at www.linuxiso.org for some good info on these issues. Third, I have used gcombust successfully. It has a very esay option for burning an iso. lastly if you want the quick and easy solution, use the command line [luke] cdrecord should be installed as most X programs use it to do the dirty work. cdrecord -scanbus to get the parameters for your cdwriter cdrecord -v -speed=12 dev=0,0,0 -data /path/to/isofile.iso -v = verbose so you can see what is going on 12= maximum speed your hardware and cd-blanks can handle 0,0,0 is the parameters shown by cdrecord -scanbus. Hopefully no more cosaters! On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 08:58, Robert Fisher wrote: > I have downloaded the ISO images but I am having trouble creating CD's. > > I tried copying the iso image to a CD but it did not boot from the CD. (I > have set the bios to boot from CD and checked it with my RH 7.2 disc) > > I tried mounting the iso image and then copying all of the files to the cd > but still it would not boot from it. > > I am trying, using X-CDroast to create a bootable CD by going to the "Boot > Options" tab, > -selecting make bootable CD using El Torito (Standard PC) > -selecting </iso/images/boot.img> for the boot image from the iso image files > What do I set the "boot catalog" at? - default? </boot.catalog> > What should I set the next radio button? No disc emulation boot? > > Could someone please help me in simple terms? > > Thanks, Robert > > On Sat, 11 May 2002 12:47, Nick Rout wrote: > > I cannot seem to find many fairly standard packages, such as blackbox, > > xfce, or in fact any light window manager. Has RedHat decided to do away > > with such "trivialities" in an effort to swing everyone towards > > kde/gnome, or am I just being cynical, or am I just looking in the worng > > places?
