Re: Isos do not boot

From: Michael A. Peters (mpeters_at_mac.com)
Date: 03/31/04

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:54:53 -0800

    On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:25 -0500, Michael Weiner wrote:
    > On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:15, jludwig wrote:
    > > Have you made sure that the cd-burner program is copying an image and
    > > not a file? If you just directly burn the iso it will be copied as a big
    > > file not as an image of a disk.
    >
    > This is a known issue currently in bugzilla, the temporary work around
    > is to boot off fc1 cd1 or fc2 test1 cd1 and at the boot: prompt, swap
    > in the fc2 test2 cd1.
    >
    > Alternately you can boot/install from an ISO.
    > But thats another discussion altogether.

    How hard would it be for them to include a boot floppy image on the CD?
    Mandrake does - and that's what it took for me to install Community
    Download 10 ... I might try Mandrake's floppy - but I kind of doubt it
    will do the trick. The image would (I think) have to have same name on
    the CD. 

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