On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 07:14, Murali Parth wrote: > --- Bob <rrunion@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I know this must be basic to a lot of users, but I'm > > having trouble trying > > to prepare bootable FC2 discs.I'm a newbie, have > read everything I can find on the CDRECORD, XCDROAST, > > etc, (still unable to figure out the 'how to') but > > can not seem to find simple procedures that I can > understand to convert the files > (i.e.FC2-i386-disc1.iso - disc 2, disc 3 & disc 4)via > Nero into bootable discs. > > Bob > Hello Bob Hello Bob You should not be trying to convert non-bootable iso images of disks 2,3,4 to bootable. They are not designed to be bootable, and are not needed to be bootable. > It is not clear whether you want to burn Cd's via > MSWin or Linux.If it is MSWIN then NERO has an option > for creating bootable discs.If it is thro' Linux then > issue the command from the console as follows : > # cdrecord -v speed=24 --dev=/dev/hdc FC2*.iso > This assumes that the speed is 24 (set it to your > value); "/dev/hdc" if it is an ide CDROM connected as > hdc.If it is a scsi device you need to execute : > #cdrecord -scanbus to find out the values for SCSI > Bus, Device ID and LUN.In case it outputs the > value,say, 0,0,0 then execute : > # cdrecord -v speed=<value> dev=0,0,0 FC2*.iso > Thru' this command the iso image in the first CD which > has a bootable image gets transferred to the first CD > burnt by you.It works well without any problem > compared any GUI-based utility either on WIN or > Linux.Try it out. > Murali > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail >
