LINUXN00B Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 I'm a student whose trying to prepare for an upcoming UNIX and X-Windows course in which the teacher has asked us to install Linux on our PCs and try it out before the class starts. I have downloaded the 3 ISO images for Mandrake and burned them to CD using Nero. When I put the disk in the drive and boot up the system it checks to boot from CD but does not recognize the ISO files (or something) and just boots to XP instead. I have tried another CD burning engine and tried burning the ISO files as a data CD as well as using the featurein Nero which allows you to burn an image. What am I doing wrong here? I cannot even get started! My PC: Pentium 1.5 Gig 256 RAM Windows XP Pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 Look for a feature that burns the cd utilizing an iso file. The iso is an image file, and it sounds like you might be just copying the file instead of burning the image. I could boot into xp and check out nero, and then check back with how to exactly do it. It's been a while since I've used nero! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LINUXN00B Posted December 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 Yeah when I run Nero 6 I choose the option in the wizard that says "CD-ROM Boot" then once in those options it gives me two choices for the source of the image: 1. Bootable logical drive less than 600 MB or 2. Image File I choose the image file, of course, and then browse for the Mandrake .ISO file and select it. It shows on the bottom as the CD being nearly full at 650 MB and even takes about 15 minutes to burn at 48X. After it burns the CD shows as full if I look at it in Windows Explorer, but it shows no files to look at (which would seem right as it is an ISO disk) But like I said, when the PC boots up it looks for a CD to boot from (As i have set boot to CD as first in the BIOS) and doesn't find one. P.S. I know I can boot from a CD because I just tested it with my Windows XP CD. Oh and I have Nero Burning ROM 6 incase it matters. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LINUXN00B Posted December 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 Maybe that will help, these are the options I see and the current ones shown are how I burn the CD: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 I'll check this out. I don't remeber using cdrom boot whaen I burned linux iso's. Did you run the md5sum to verify the integrity of the file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LINUXN00B Posted December 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 Don't kill me but I have no idea what the md5sum is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 When using Nero use the 'Burn as Image' option. you don't need to make it bootable or anything like that. The ISO image that you then burn makes it bootable. The burn as image option skips all that stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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