really dumb iso question

[Leon Goldstein]

Susan Macchia wrote:

>
>
> */Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>     On 12/19/06, Susan Macchia wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I have scoured the web, Linux SxS, FC site and can't find
>     anything specific.
>     > I have downloaded the FC6 isos and have used gcombust to burn
>     them (in the
>     > burn tab IS 9660 Image - specifying an image location).
>     >
>     > But none of the CDs boot. I've gone into the BIOS, etc and yes -
>     CD rom is
>     > the first boot device. What am I missing?
>     >
>     > It's been a couple of years since I did this with FC1 and I
>     simply can't
>     > remember if I burned the original ISOs in a special way.
>     >
>
>     1. I've had very poor luck with FCn isos. Mostly they are coasters,
>     even if the md5sums (or whatever FC uses) match. They will usually
>     boot, but fail during the install.
>
>     2. I always have best results using cdrecord as root at a low speed,
>     ie 'cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdc speed=8 -eject /path/to/iso'. Of course,
>     if you're using an older kernel with emulation the 'dev=...' will be
>     different.
>
>     HTH,
>
> Thanks, I'll give that a try - However, I burned the FC1 CDs on an 
> older RH version (9?) with no issues.  I am on FC1, can I use 
> /dev/cdrom1 if it exists, instead of /dev/hdc?
>
> Perhaps the slow speed is the trick?
>
> TIA for all the advice!
>
> --Susan
>
>  
>
Burning at a speed below the drive's rating is usually sound advice.   
Also, flashing a firmware upgrade can help; it certainly helped my 
stable of Plextors which reliably burn at max speed, given decent 
quality media. 

On my systems (Libranet Debian) /dev/cdrom is a symlink.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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