On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 19:45, dep wrote:
> this is really embarrassing.
>
> i've been burning cds right and left for awhile now, no problem other
> than the generally counterintuitive controls on xcdroast and the much
> worse koncd.
>
> this evening i realized that i've never burned an iso image and, a
> couple of wasted cds later, that i do not know how to.
>
> the goal is to make one of the nice 16-mb bootable gentoo install cds.
> there is on the planet a distribution that doesn't recklessly piss
> away system resources, and gentoo seems the likeliest.
>
> problem is, xcdroast burns a nice cd with a copy of the iso file on
> it, rather than using the iso file to create a nice bootable cd that
> does as it's supposed to do.
>
> it clearly can be done; just as clearly, i have no idea how to do it.
>
> help???
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Are you using the appropriate sized CD for the burn??? I just read, on
another list, that burning a 650mb image on a 700mb disk, might prevent
it's booting properly. <shrug> I can't say for sure dep, but just
thought I'd pass on what I had read...
Mike
--
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
--Will Durant
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