--- In [email protected], Robert C Wittig
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> jimpadget2005 wrote:
> > OK, I downloaded pclinux distro and it seems to be a
> > compressed RAR file with .ISO extension.
> >
> > So, I uncompressed it with rarlab software and got
> > a PCLinux folder with 3 files inside:
> >
> > 1. Folder Named "Boot"
> > 2. Folder Named "Isolinux"
> > 3. File: livecd.sqfs
> >
> > I put the 3 files (not the folder) on a CD and tried
> > to boot my old PC, but the linux won't boot.
> > The CD drive runs some, but it still boots Windows XP.
> >
> > Now I a drink and some advice. thx
> >
> >
>
> All you want to do, was to simply burn the *.iso file as a disk image,
> pop it into your bootable CD drive, and start the computer, which
> should have the CD drive before the hard drive in the boot order, so
> that the CD will boot, and not whatever you might have installed on
> the HD.
>
>
> --
> -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/
> http://robertwittig.net/
> http://robertwittig.org/
> .
Jim, where you went wrong is that you used the wrong type of software
tool. While a *.iso file can be expanded/de-archived by any archive
program worth its salt, what you really wanted to use was CD burning
software such as Nero or Ashampoo's Burning Studio. The *.iso image
contains not only the files you saw, but hidden boot sector data that
can *only* be transferred by using the whole image.
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