I cant get linux to install or boot off of the cd did i copy it right?

[Tbirdkid]

help. i am starting on mandrake 9.1 and i burned all three isos on to cds from nero and they are in nrg format.. how come it wont auto start when i boot off the cd? help

 

[drag]

Um... I'll assume that you have your bios configured to boot off of cd before booting off of the harddrive.

One of the things that first got me was that I burned the iso to the cdrom... That is just copied the ISO to cdrom, so that I had a ISO image on a disk... What I needed to do was "burn iso as image" to the cdrom. The difference is having the iso image having it's contents "inflated" (although it is not a compressed format) to fill up the cdrom with a bootable copy of Linux you need to begin the install. ISO is simply a bit by bit copy of some original install cdrom somewhere.

 

[Tbirdkid]

i copied the full one onto the cdrom i think.... do u have an instant messager? i need help bad

 

[cleverhandle]

Put another way, you should be able to read the CD from Windows and see folders and files there. If you just see one big 650MB .iso file, that means you burned it wrong.

 

[Tbirdkid]

on disk 2 and three i see a big file saying mandrake... on disk 1 i see boot, bootx etc

 

[Tbirdkid]

somebody with a instant messager talk to me i am on aim bignutz2k2

 

[Spyro]

Use a cd burner to burn the cd images onto the cd. You can't just copy it to get it working.

 

[Tbirdkid]

Ok i used NERO to burn the image. there is only one way to burn an image with nero that is an iso but it changes the file format to nrg instead of being iso. I think its my cds cause there is no autorun.inf on my cds at all.

 

[Bleep]

LOOK Here

Ok i used NERO to burn the image. there is only one way to burn an image with nero that is an iso

You are correct in one respect there is only 1 way that will work see the link above for the right way.

Bleep

 

[Tbirdkid]

come to find out all the files for the program werent on that build or download. thanks guys. i got red hat 9 running