On Thursday 12 October 2006 00:27, deedee wrote: > I tried doing a search for this, but didn't turn up anything > usable. > > I have MandrivaLinux 2006 on DVD. There was no problem installing > it to my portable computer because the CD drive is a combined > CD/DVD player. However, my standalone desktop has a CD drive > that's only a CD player. There is an external combined CD/DVD > burner, but the desktop computer doesn't recognize it at boot. I > tried burning the boot.iso to a CD using K3b, but I must've done > something wrong, because my system completely ignored it even > though it will boot from a CD. So I guess it wasn't bootable. > > I thought about making the boot floppy, but I wasn't sure how to > tell it to look in the external CD drive (on my system > as /mnt/cdrom2). > > What are my options? Is there a primer somewhere on the best way > to copy the contents of the DVD to CDs? How do I keep it bootable > once copied to the CDs? > > Any guidance would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > deedee
http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/index.php/SysAdmin/Config/MakeBootCD For gui editing of existing (also bootable) iso's, take a look at "isomaster". Very effective and easy. :-) http://littlesvr.ca/isomaster is where it can be found. or If you're using KDE: "kiso" which IMO is a little less intuitive and needs root access because of all the extra options like mounting images.....typical of KDE. :-) -- Good luck, HarM ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
