Hi Dave...
I created a Linux install CD under Windows using Easy CD Creator a long time
ago and it was quite straightforward. I think all I had to do was
double-click on the ISO in the Explorer and Easy CD Creator "did the right
thing".
CD burning is not difficult in Linux, but it is different perhaps that what
your used to. If you can do the burn under Windows, it might get you of to a
better start.
M.
On Saturday 27 January 2001 16:22, you wrote:
> Hmmm.. I bet you're right. That's not all I have to learn. <g> I use
> Nero for burning (which, it seems, has no association with ISO files) and
> Direct CD for pocket writing. I have an old copy of Easy CD Creator
> (Adaptec) and will download the upgrade so I can follow the instructions I
> found this morning on the L-M site in a document called "How to burn a
> Mandrake CD from an iso9660 file under Windows? [By Laurent Daniel
> Sinitambirivoutin]"
>
> <http://www.linux-mandrake.com/howtos/iso/howtoisoen.html#ECD>
>
> Dave
>
> KompuKit wrote:
> > This is the reason...you only see one file with an ISO
> > extension...
> > it is because you NEVER actually burned it correctly...
> > instead ...you only copied the iso file to the CD...
> >
> > learn how to burn,,, is my suggestion
> >
> > (contains no tree
> >
> > > nor even 1 directory, only the ISO file.. which is exactly the correct
> > > size as compared to what I downloaded.)
> >
> > Dave Burrows wrote:
> > > Hi, John and all;
> > >
> > > Early this morning (about 4:11 am), I finished downloading the ISO
> > > files that I began last Sunday evening. It took only 5.5 days to
> > > download both ISO
> > > files with my super duper speedy delivery dial-up connection. ;)
> > >
> > > I tried to install this version of Linux-Mandrake, having been burned
> > > to CD but am told by the installer that it doesn't appear to be a
> > > Linux-Mandrake disk. After several attempts including 1 with the
> > > purchased CD (which contains only a beta of KDE2.0 but which
> > > initializes correctly) I booted back to Windows and looked at the
> > > purchased disk (showed a number of directories as expected) and at the
> > > one I had just burned (contains no tree nor even 1 directory, only the
> > > ISO file.. which is exactly the correct size as compared to what I
> > > downloaded.)
> > >
> > > I decided that I better test the install boot (floppy) disk I made,
> > > thinking that it might be pointing to something it can't find on the
> > > CD. (by the way, the CD device I used to try to install either disk is
> > > the writer not the
> > > CD-ROM; everything works fine with the purchased disk but not the one I
> > > burned) In my BIOS, i changed the boot order to boot from the the cd
> > > device,
> > > then C:\ then A:\. On reboot, I read that CD failed and it booted to
> > > C:\. I tried both CD devices with the same failure resulting.
> > >
> > > What must I do to make this file function? A rhetorical question: 4.5
> > > years ago when I was totally new to Windows (had only ever used a DOS
> > > machine before that), I never had this much trouble with that OS nor
> > > since; why do I want this one so much? Rhetoric off, rant on: why IS
> > > this such a bugger to install and configure for someone who is not a
> > > programmer and 'only' a user? Wouldn't Linux be more likely to do some
> > > serious damage to the MS market if it were a little more user friendly?
> > > Rant off. <g>
> > >
> > > Tenacity reigns; I still want Linux. Any suggestions anyone?
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > John W wrote:
> > > > You can download the ISO image and burn that to a cd/cd's. I have
> > > > also looked at the mandrake mirrors and in the past have downloaded
> > > > everything except the lin4win and dostools to my harddrive in a
> > > > folder named Mandrake and have then created a boot image to boot up
> > > > and direct the installer the Mandrake DIR and installed from a Fat
> > > > partition.
> > > > --
> > > > John W
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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
