On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 23:49 -0400, Steven C. Liu wrote: > Folks, > > I've come to the conclusion that I've burned my CD's correctly. I used > Nero, Sonic and various XP "wizards" and stuff to burn the FC2 discs onto > CD. Everyone burns fine, except that I can't make disc1 properly bootable. It's easy to see if you burned correctly or not. First the file you made the CDs out of should not contain the letters SRPM - these are source discs and are not meant to be booted. Under Windows, open the cd you just burned (i.e. "My Computer"-->"d" or whichever drive letter your CD is. in fact it should say FC2 something under the Icon). When you have it open do you see one file named the same as the .iso you just burned? (i.e.FC2-i386-disc1.iso ). That bit that says -i386 in the name indicates that this iso is for the regular pentium or equivalent PC (not G4 macs or whatever-which is obviously not the problem). With the disc open do you see the files : autorun README-Accessibility RPM-GPG-KEY-beta eula.txt README-en RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora Fedora README-en.html RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide GPL RELEASE-NOTES-en RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test images RELEASE-NOTES-en.html RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide isolinux RPM-GPG-KEY TRANS.TBL (Fedora, images and isolinux are directories) if all of the above is true, you may have another problem, Have you been able to boot any other CD? check your BIOS -- ensure that the CD is on the list of bootable devices and (preferably) first, but definitely before the HDD. HTH Scott > Can someone please -- PUHLEEZE -- help me out here? This shouldn't be so > hard. My CD-RW drive is on my PC running XP Pro SP2. > > What I think I need is a way to burn a small bootstrapping code as the first > record of the CD. That small bootstrapping code will point BIOS to the real > boot program and to teh rest of the boot up sequence. Can someone supply me > with the bootstrapping code? > > TIA, > > Steve > > -- When in doubt -- Vote 'em out
