[ale] RedHat 6.0

[Patrick Ramsey]

The iso is a 9660 image (or should be if it is not corrupt)  Try mounting the image itself on another linux box and see if it errors out.  If you do not have a linux box to play with, set your burning software to "test/write" instead of just "write" and see if it is able to test thooughly through the burn process... If you have a multispeed burner, slowing the write speed sometimes helps..

-Patrick

<<< Tom <tom at watson.st>  5/24  7:07p >>>
I downloaded a copy of CDRWin and have been trying to burn a copy of the 
.iso onto a CDR. It may be that my copy of the .iso is bad, but I now have 
three CDR that make really good coasters (I think).
How do you burn an ISO9660 image of a linux .iso with CDRWin under with a 
windows platform?

Tom


At 10:35 PM 5/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
>easy cd creator's iso burning capability is not the greatest
>
>you should get ez cd pro or cdrwin
>
>Chris
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Benjamin Scherrey <scherrey at switchco.com>
>To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
>Cc: Tom <tom at watson.st>
>Date: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 10:00 PM
>Subject: Re: [ale] RedHat 6.0
>
>
> >The .iso file is an ISO9660 cdrom image. Under Linux, utilizing the
> >local loop, you can actually mount this file as a virtual disk. In fact,
> >I very much recommend that you do this before burning the cd because if
> >you can't mount the file then your image is bad and you'll waste a cd
> >(like I did the first time). Your CD writing software (I have Adaptec
> >Easy CD Creator on Windows NT) should have the ability to write a CD
> >from an image file (which is what this is). That's how you should write
> >the disk. Just writing the file to a CD-ROM will only result in copying
> >a file and give you nothing except a backup of that file. Once you've
> >written the CD from the image file the CD-ROM will then have the full
> >directory structure and files in place as you'd expect and you're off
> >and running...
> >
> > Good luck & later,
> >
> > Ben Scherrey
> >
> >PS: I was not, unfortunately, able to successfully d/l the .iso image
> >from Ga Tech. I assume that's because I was only able to access via http
> >and not ftp which is more efficient and probably safer. Several times my
> >d/l (over 128K ISDN) was aborted for no reason and I had to restart.
> >
> >Tom wrote:
> >>
> >> I know I asked this question before, but my hard disk crashed (don't buy
> >> hard disks from Best Buys, but that is another
> >> story) and I lost all the previous emails. I downloaded RH 6.0 from the
> >> gatech ftp site (twice) and burned a CD on a windows
> >> based machine. I have a Sony CDR that came with a "Hot Burn" CD writer
> >> package. When I create a CDR with the copy
> >> file to disk, I am not able to boot with the disk or create a boot disk
> >> from the .iso file.
> >> Do I need to unpack or process the .iso somehow?
> >> Is a direct copy?
> >> Is a Linux OS the only thing that can read the .iso? (I have Linux 5.2
>but
> >> was going to start with 6.0 instead)