Re: Running Live Eval

From: Keith Clark (clarkphotography_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/04/03 

Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:50:44 -0800

wqait@isqgow.com wrote:

> |SuSE-9.0-LiveEval-i386-Int-RC1.iso
> |sitting on my hard drive. I don't think I really know what to do with this.
> |I burned it onto a CD using Nero and thus have a CD with the same file
> |listed within, but that doesn't seem right to me (and it doesn't boot).
>
> No if you see it as a file, it's wrong.
>
> |Shouldn't I be doing something so the contents of this file are unloaded and
> |written as raw data on this CD, in a specific arrangement (something that
> |can execute) rather than an iso file? I cannot believe that my PC knows
> |what to do with an iso file. Or do I need to make a boot floppy?
>
> You should burn it as an ISO image. I don't know Nero but you should
> find the option that writes it as a raw image to the CD. Or get another
> burning program. After you have done that you should have a bootable CD.
> You can also mount that CD and see the files within the image as a
> double check.
> --

In Nero you select "burn image" from the File menu.

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