[ale] RedHat 6.0

[Christopher S. Adams]

just point me to the iso and i'll burn you a copy :)

Chris

-----Original Message-----
 From: Tom <tom at watson.st>
To: Christopher S. Adams <toiletduk at penguinpowered.com>
Cc: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Date: Monday, May 24, 1999 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] RedHat 6.0


>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)
>