really dumb iso question

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 17:12 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 12/19/06, Susan Macchia <susan at smacchia.net> 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.

On the Fedora list they were recommending much less speed... like 2 for
burning. Maybe Kurt will jump in, he helped me out with disks. The man
is a whiz. Ric

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