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| Thread ID: 30409 | 2003-02-18 19:47:00 | ISO image on CD not booting | Shroeder (492) | Press F1 |
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| 122234 | 2003-02-18 19:47:00 | Hi I recently downloaded the peanut linux iso image and burnt it to CDRom using Speedy CD (It has an option to burn an image). Changed the bios on my computer to boot CD - it tried but didn't work (ended up booting from C as that was its next option. Am I supposed to burn something else to the CD also? Thanks |
Shroeder (492) | ||
| 122235 | 2003-02-18 19:56:00 | yes you need to get your copying prog to write some info to the CD saying its a bootable CD. There should be an option on your prog somewhere, otherwise use Nero | roofus (483) | ||
| 122236 | 2003-02-18 20:16:00 | Thanks for this Roofus. I have looked and can confirm SpeedyCD has an option to make a CD bootable but it asks for a bootable diskette to be placed in A: during the process (I assume to copy a file across!) As I'm trying to make a bootable linux CD from a machine running NT4 what particular boot disk should I be putting in? Thanks |
Shroeder (492) | ||
| 122237 | 2003-02-18 20:19:00 | I'm not sure with that one, hopefully someone will post back and be able to help you. | roofus (483) | ||
| 122238 | 2003-02-18 20:36:00 | Correct me if i am wrong, but an .ISO image is absolute (i thought) and if peanut is bootable, your CD should be. Perhaps somewhere in peanut you have the option of making a boot disk? Perhaps to, something somewhere in the download got currupted? .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 122239 | 2003-02-18 20:39:00 | That was what I had thought also but reading some other stuff it appears to state you need two tracks - One bootable and the other an image! I assume I use MD5Sums (sp?) to check the download (but how??) Cheers |
Shroeder (492) | ||
| 122240 | 2003-02-18 21:17:00 | Well all i know is that when i burnt a copy of knoppix (bootable version) it was just that. This was of course taken from the .ISO that i downloaded from the web. I had this success using nero, and told nero to burn an "image file" .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 122241 | 2003-02-18 21:39:00 | I have never been able to get any peanut iso to boot I have to make boot floppys |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 122242 | 2003-02-19 01:38:00 | If the iso includes the bootable info then, no you won't need to make it bootable. But if the iso isn't bootable then yes you will have to make it a bootable clear as mud |
roofus (483) | ||
| 122243 | 2003-02-19 02:49:00 | A bootable linux floppy is just a disk image of the kernel. (Or, the kernel is just a compressed self-extracting boot floppy image. B-)) I make boot floppies by doing "dd if=/boot/the_name_of_kernel of=/dev/fd0 bs=72k". I have always assumed that ISO images contained all that was necessary. But I've never needed to know. Ignorance is bliss. :D |
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