--- Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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??? > ============================= > 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...
That's news to me. I've burnt many ISO 650MB ISO images to 700MB CDs, and never had a single problem. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
