Re: OpenSuse Installation Problem

From: NunYa Bidness (nunyabidness_at_nunyabidness.org)
Date: 09/02/05 

Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:15:23 GMT

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:07:14 GMT, "Frank J. Lhota"
<NOSPAM.lhota@adarose.com> Gave us:

>Recently, our company started pursuing some contracts for developing
>Linux software. I was delighted, for I always wanted to do a Linux
>project. I told my boss that Suse 9.3 Professional was available as a
>free download, and I got approval to install Linux on one of our
>development platforms.
>
>So I downloaded the ISO images for Suse 9.3, and burned them to CD using
> Roxio Easy CD creator. As instructed, I burned them in the ISO-9660
>format. When I view the resulting disks from Windows explorer, they look
>great. The only problem is that I cannot seem to boot from them!

  They look great? They should contain thousands of files, not just
the ISO image burned to disc.
>
>Is there some other parameter I need to set when burning these ISO
>images in order to get a bootable disk? Should I use a different disk
>burning software package? Any help would be most appreciated.

  Usually, when one burns an image from an ISO file, one doesn't need
to change ANY of the settings. The software is already set up. You
making changes prior to the burn likely causes a problem.

  You cannot simply write the iso file to a CD. You need to burn the
IMAGE file to the disc. The result is a disc that has several
thousand files on it. To do this, you do not select "data disc" and
then choose the iso file. You make the selection that allows you to
burn an image to disc. ISO files are encapsulated disc images.

  You could boot Knoppix and burn it, but you would have to have a
knoppix disc to do so.

  There are plenty of freeware disc burning utilities.

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