YUMGUI - YUMI

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Jun 27 13:44:21 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 07:14, Murali Parth wrote:
> --- Bob <rrunion at cox.net> wrote:
> > I know this must be basic to a lot of users, but I'm
> > having trouble trying
> > to prepare bootable FC2 discs.I'm a newbie, have
> read everything I can find on the CDRECORD, XCDROAST,
> > etc, (still unable to figure out the 'how to') but
> > can not seem to find simple procedures that I can
> understand to convert the files
> (i.e.FC2-i386-disc1.iso - disc 2, disc 3 & disc 4)via
> Nero into bootable discs.
> > Bob
> Hello Bob

Hello Bob

You should not be trying to convert non-bootable iso images of disks
2,3,4 to bootable.  They are not designed to be bootable, and are  not
needed to be bootable.

> It is not clear whether you want to burn Cd's via
> MSWin or Linux.If it is MSWIN then NERO has an option
> for creating bootable discs.If it is thro' Linux then
> issue the command from the console as follows :
>      # cdrecord -v speed=24 --dev=/dev/hdc FC2*.iso
> This assumes that the speed is 24 (set it to your
> value); "/dev/hdc" if it is an ide CDROM connected as
> hdc.If it is a scsi device you need to execute :
> #cdrecord -scanbus to find out the values for SCSI
> Bus, Device ID and LUN.In case it outputs the
> value,say, 0,0,0 then execute : 
>      # cdrecord -v speed=<value> dev=0,0,0 FC2*.iso
> Thru' this command the iso image in the first CD which
> has a bootable image gets transferred to the first CD
> burnt by you.It works well without any problem
> compared any GUI-based utility either on WIN or
> Linux.Try it out.
> Murali
> 
> 
> 
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