Re: Can't install Debian 3.1 on HP Pavilion 7955 computer

From: Alan Adams (alan.adams_at_orchard-way.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 10/14/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:02:10 +0100

In message <op.syl2qwtonxtvbs@apeiron.home.lan>
          "Enrique Perez-Terron" <enrio@online.no> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:02:29 +0200, John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
>
> > Reverend Duck writes:
> >> Like I said, I use Windows XP's inherent CD burning software. Debian
> >> should have a tutorial for this very basic procedure...
> >
> > Why?
>
> Oh, come on, the issues here are so obvious only after you acquire
> a number of concepts.
>
> Unfortunately it seems like most tool writers have consistently
> forgotten the case where you want to burn an Iso image. The only
> too I know of that does it is the intimidating cdrecord under
> Linux. How to do that under windows? No idea, I don't run windows.

Burn4free has an item on the File menu to "burn an ISO image".

>
> So, to burn an iso image, visit a friend that has a Linux computer
> and Internet connectivity, download the iso, open a terminal window,
> and type
>
> cdrecord -v dev=cdrom padsize=100s xxxxx.iso
>
>
> If you have written the iso to a cd or dvd as a file in the
> CD filesystem, you can still use that instead of downlaoding
> the iso, copy the file from the cd to the hard disk.
>
> -Enrique 

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Alan Adams
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