On Thursday 12 October 2006 02:56 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > 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.
The permissions apparently were different on my CD (444) than on the DVD (644). When I copied the boot.iso from the Mandriva DVD, I didn't notice that. I fixed them this time. > > 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? > > http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/index.php/SysAdmin/Config/MakeBootCD The wiki address has changed and when I went to the new wiki (at mdv.vmlinuz.ca instead of at mandriva.vmlinuz.ca), I couldn't figure it out. Don't know why because (in hindsight) it wasn't all that different. Once I went to the old wiki (your link above), I compared the two and easily found my way around the new one. So you solved two problems for me -- finding info on making a bootable CD and figuring out the new wiki. Following the directions, I burned the boot.iso (with the correct permissions this time) to the CD. It worked perfectly. Mandriva 2006 correctly identified the external combined CD/DVDRW drive and was able to install from the DVD. Thanks, deedee -- Registered Linux User #327485 ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
