Re: [debian] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-07-17 Thread Steve Kleiser
on a very tight budget). - Original Message - From: James Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian helping [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 2:18 AM Subject: [debian] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD? Are you just looking for a way to check that the disc is 100% correct

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-07-15 Thread Steve Kleiser
on a Windows machine, such as the way FIPS will examine a hard drive. . - Original Message - From: Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve Kleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:23 PM Subject: [debian] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-07-15 Thread James Foster
Subject: [debian] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD? Actually, there's According to Steve Kleiser, Greetings, What freeware utilities are available that could be used to check the boot sector/MBR of a Debian boot CD using a Windows machine? This is probably the wrong place

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-07-14 Thread Steve Kleiser
Greetings, What freeware utilities are available that could be used to check the boot sector/MBR of a Debian boot CD using a Windows machine? After burning the CD the directory structure looks the way it should, but I'd like to verify the correct location and content (maybe via a

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-07-14 Thread Tony Godshall
Actually, there's According to Steve Kleiser, Greetings, What freeware utilities are available that could be used to check the boot sector/MBR of a Debian boot CD using a Windows machine? This is probably the wrong place to ask about DOS/Windows utils, but you could do this: 1. get a

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-27 Thread Rich
:18 PM Subject: Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD? On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:05:34PM +0100, Rich wrote: As far as I am aware, the fact that you can see the directory structure tells me that you've burned the CD as a bootable image. When I accidentally burned a non-bootable image, all

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:43:45PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya jon/hohn On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jon Dowland wrote: You cannot determine by examining the file structure whether or not a CD is bootable. usually bootable cd's will have an extra directory /syslinux or something

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-26 Thread Micha Feigin
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:34 AM Subject: Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD? Burning the CD as an image using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 on my WindowsXP machine results in a CD with a directory structure that looks like it should, from Explorer (it's

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Steve Kleiser
: [debian] Re: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD? Steve Kleiser wrote: So does that mean the official CD images are not bootable? No; they are bootable. But you have to burn them as an image, not as files. How to do that will depend on the burner software you're using

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:34:19 -0500, Steve Kleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Burning the CD as an image using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 on my WindowsXP machine results in a CD with a directory structure that looks like it should, from Explorer (it's comparable to my purchased CD, which does

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:34:19 -0500, Steve Kleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any freeware utilities to burn an ISO image to CD (e.g., iso2CD.exe or something) that run under Windows? The CD burning applications appear to contain numerous features I don't need for this particular

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread John Summerfield
Jon Dowland wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:34:19 -0500, Steve Kleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any freeware utilities to burn an ISO image to CD (e.g., iso2CD.exe or something) that run under Windows? The CD burning applications appear to contain numerous features I don't need for

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread LeVA
2004. június 24. 15:54, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On many/most Linux systems, it seems you need to turn on DMA first: hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/cdrom What does that unmaskirq mean? Daniel -- LeVA pgplzxm3dbYz0.pgp Description: signature

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread John Summerfield
LeVA wrote: 2004. június 24. 15:54, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On many/most Linux systems, it seems you need to turn on DMA first: hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/cdrom What does that unmaskirq mean? On IA32 systems, interupts can be turned off (masked), potentially

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Rich
: Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:34 AM Subject: Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD? Burning the CD as an image using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 on my WindowsXP machine results in a CD with a directory structure that looks like it should, from Explorer (it's comparable to my purchased CD, which does

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 18:34, Steve Kleiser wrote: Are there any freeware utilities to burn an ISO image to CD (e.g., iso2CD.exe or something) that run under Windows? I think the cdrecord package has a windows version - try googling for it. Command line (but there may also be W* GUIs - let us

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, LeVA wrote: On many/most Linux systems, it seems you need to turn on DMA first: hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/cdrom What does that unmaskirq mean? it means if you have 2 identical, i mean identical ( same manufacturer parts ), than the one with the -u1 option defined will see

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jon/hohn On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jon Dowland wrote: You cannot determine by examining the file structure whether or not a CD is bootable. usually bootable cd's will have an extra directory /syslinux or something you can mount the cdrom to see what it has called (I

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:43:45 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jon Dowland wrote: You cannot determine by examining the file structure whether or not a CD is bootable. usually bootable cd's will have an extra directory /syslinux or something

Re: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-21 Thread Steve Kleiser
So does that mean the official CD images are not bootable? - Original Message - From: Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 8:53 PM Subject: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD? hi ya On Sun

Re: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-21 Thread Kent West
Steve Kleiser wrote: So does that mean the official CD images are not bootable? No; they are bootable. But you have to burn them as an image, not as files. How to do that will depend on the burner software you're using. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-21 Thread Micha Feigin
. - Original Message - From: Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 8:53 PM Subject: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD? hi ya On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: Its not enough

Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-19 Thread Steve Kleiser
Greetings, Although able to boot from a (purchased) Debian 3.0 i386 Install #1NON-US CD, the CD I burned using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Basic and debian-30r2-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso won't boot in the same Pentium desktop clone. The directory structures of the two CDs appear to be identical

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-19 Thread Thomas McLean
here on everything, so it should work. Try it again and burn it as an iso image. HTH, Tam. - Original Message - From: Steve Kleiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 03:39:27 -0500 Subject: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 03:39:27AM -0500, Steve Kleiser wrote: Greetings, Although able to boot from a (purchased) Debian 3.0 i386 Install #1 NON-US CD, the CD I burned using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Basic and debian-30r2-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso won't boot in the same

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: Its not enough to copy all the files to the cd (which is probably what you did if you burned it in data mode). You need to make the cd bootable by burning a basic system and marking where to find those files. yup.. a bootable cdrom will have