On Saturday 02 December 2006 22:47, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote: > David Boles wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote: > >> I don't believe its because of the hardware (even though the laptop > >> itself is almost four years old). Has anyone been able to successfully > >> burn bootable Fedora Core 6 iso images to DVD disks? May it have > >> something to do with the boot loader? Any help is appreciated. > > > > Can you 'look at' (open) the DVD? Does it show one large file named > > <something>.iso or directories with files? > > > > In other words did you copy the ISO to the DVD? Or did you burn an ISO > > image to the DVD? You should have done the second one and you should see > > directories and files. > > > > - -- > > > > David > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) > > > > iD8DBQFFcf9frItTyWRhT1YRAuiKAKCtk+5qTUgXCnbFYypd5tNV0tcJFACgtMSJ > > fON5njQbHbur0fMDcF5hoEc= > > =7351 > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Hello David, > > Yes, I was able to successfully burn the iso image to the DVD disk > and I do see the files and directories. By the way, I took this same > disk and put it on a Dell Laptop of a friend of mine and it was able to > boot the DVD successfully. So I think that it may be something on my > laptop - perhaps the bios (it was previously set to boot from the > CD-ROM). Perhaps it is the bios - but I don't know what it is for > sure. When I put it in my DVD drive, it doesn't not boot to the DVD but > instead goes to a normal boot up. This laptop is about four years old > and originally had a combo drive (CD/DVD-ROM). Jeffrey, the colour of the burned disks is not important - it's just the brand of media's choice. What may be important, though, is that it is a DVD+R. Many older drives can read one type, + or -, but not the other. Have you tried burning it to a -R? (I have to admit that I didn't think of that when I had the problem with my old laptop.) I'm sure many people have successfully burned the iso to dvd. I certainly have. Anne
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