Re: Newbe needs help on duel system install of suse

From: george (george_at_nospam.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:22:15 -0500

Hi David,

The contents are burned to the cd.
I see folders and files, but no setup or install file.

Terry

  On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:51:10 +0100, David Wright
<david_c_wright@hotmail.com> wrote:

>george wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I took the plunge and downloaded suse 9.1 and burned it to a cd.
>> I setup the partitions with partition magic following the instructions
>> to a tee.
>>
>> I inserted the cd and it doesn't boot.
>> I get the message cd boot failure.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Regards,
>> George
>>
>
>Did you burn the .iso file onto the disk, or did you get your burning
>software to open the iso file and burn its *contents* to the CD?
>
>Sorry if you have done this and I am teaching you to suck eggs...
>
>An iso is a standard way of wrapping up the contents of a CD into an image
>file which can then easily be transported and copied electronically. When
>you want to write it back to disk, your burner software must open the image
>and write the contents of the file to disk. In simple terms, it is like a
>zip file or similar, designed specifically to contain all of the contents
>of a disk, including the bits for the boot sector.
>
>Writing the iso file to the disk (as 1 iso file) will allow you to do
>nothing with the file other than use the CD as a source to burn a real
>CD...
>
>When you use Nero, K3b, EasyCD or a similar package, you must tell it that
>you are giving it the ISO file and want to burn the contents to the CD, not
>the iso itself.
>
>If you have burnt the contents to disk and it is still not booting, it
>sounds like something went wrong in the burning process or maybe there is
>something wrong with the CD-ROM. Try the CD in another machine and try and
>boot your machine with another CD (E.g. the Windows CD or something which
>came with the machine). This should help you track down where the problem
>lays.
>
>If the CD does contain the install directory tree and not just 1 .iso file,
>then maybe something went wrong in the burning process, or the CD is
>faulty. Get the burning software to double check the iso's integrity and
>try and burn another copy.
>
>Dave

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