Re: Ready to take the linux plunge -- How to create discs ??

From: Markku Kolkka (markku.kolkka_at_iki.fi)
Date: 02/04/04 

Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:40:25 +0200

TomT wrote:

> I've downloaded three files from an ftp site and they are all labeled
> as .iso files. I can open these up on my windows machine using WinRAR
> and see the files within the .iso, however when I extract these files
> and burn them to a disk I cannot boot from them.

You must not extract the file, you must use a CD burning program that
can create CDs from an ISO image. See:
http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/howtoburn.html 

-- 
        Markku Kolkka
        markku.kolkka@iki.fi

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