[ale] Making a bootable CD

[hbbs at comcast.net]

Riiiight - but are you burning the *image* to the CD or the *image file*?


> The vendors are supplying "bootable images" with an .iso extension, I 
> presume?
> -B
> 
> >First things first - these are *image burns*, not data CDs that contain a file 
> that has the extension .iso?
> >
> >Jeff
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I *must* be missing something...
> >>downloaded several bootable .iso's and burned them over to CD's.
> >>The CD's won't boot. (Yes, the CD drive is the first listed in the BIOS 
> >>setup, and, in fact,
> >>with the hard drive removed the boot loader tells me that the loaded
> >>CD "doesn't contain a bootable image".)
> >>
> >>I've tried downloads of Ubuntu 5-10's .iso, LFS-LiveCD's .iso
> >>and I'm getting nowhere. Is there some sort of a bootable flag?
> >>What am I missing?
> >>
> >>-B
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