Redhat 7 install from ISO images

[Spuddy]

Hi

I've just recently downloaded the 2 Redhat 7 distribution ISO files from:

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.0/i386/iso/ (7.0-respin-disc1.iso & 7.0-respin-disc2.iso)

Using Nero 5, I burned each onto a separate CD-ROM. However when I try booting from the CD-ROM with either of these disks nothing happens. I have an Athlon 800 with an ASUS K7V mainboard (which supports booting from CD-ROM via a simple BIOS change). When I check each CD under Windows the directory listing just lists each ISO as a file.

So what do I need to do to make these ISOs into bootable CD-ROMs containing the contents of each ISO??


Cheers

 

[Damaged]

Looks like you just copied the ISO to the CD. You need a program, and I think Nero does it, that will create the CD and it's files from the ISO image.

 

[Cyph3r]

Excerpt from Nero's Support site(you should visit that before asking simple questions)

Q. Can Nero burn ISO images?
A. Nero can burn images of type ISO.

In the current Nero version the parameters of the ISO file still have to be entered.

[*]Type of image: Data Mode 1 (assuming that it is a Mode 1 image)
[*]Block size: 2048 Bytes (corresponds to the sector size of a Mode 1 image)
[*]File precursor and length of the image trailer: 0 Bytes (assuming that the image file only contains ISO data and not other special information has been entered)
[*]no Scrambled (i.e. it is not an image which was especially created for old Philips CD Writer )and no Swapped (assuming that the files contains the Bytes in the correct order.

The settings are based on the assumption that it is a normal ISO Mode 1 image file. This can be checked by opening the file with a Hex Editor. For File-Offset 08000hex (corresponds to Block 16 where the ISO ([p]rimary [v]olume [d]descriptor is saved). If there is a text there such as "CD001", then burning with the above mentioned method should work.

Please proceed as follows if you want to burn an ISO image file:

[*]Nero start
[*]Open following menu entry: File -> Burn CD image.
[*]Now determine the type of file: All files (*.*)
[*]Now select the ISO image file to be burned.
[*]Now you will be informed that Nero does not recognize the format of the image file. Please confirm this dialog.
[*]In the dialog which then appears, set the parameters given above.
[*]Now click on . .

 

[urbantechie]

http://www.fireburner.com/downloads/FireBurner106.zip
Nuff Said.

 

[Spuddy]

Cool, that did the trick. Thanks v much.

 

[Quaggoth]

Hey, I downloaded that fireburner, Is that an actual burner software? If so, Will it burn CD's that don't normally like to be burned?