[ale] Making a bootable CD

Brian J. Dowd bdowd at dentfirst.com
Wed Nov 30 12:43:00 EST 2005


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?
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>Jeff
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>>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".)
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>>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?
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>>-B
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