ISO installations

[subnet_rx]

I've read FAQ's that these can be installed from CD-R's and CD-RW's and you just download the ISO and at boot up you type in a command. I'm using Win98 with Adaptec's CD-Writer utility, is this going to be that easy? What do I need to know here?

[urinal cake]

I just did it for Mandrake 8.0. As long as you burn the CD right and it comes out bootable, you're golden. Somewhere I found instructions for properly burning the CD's from the images and now I'm dual booted: Win2K and Mandrake 8.0. I just got the CD-ROM to CD-RW burn working tonite so I backed up my burned images.Quake III was easy to get going. Here I found the instructions. They don't cover CD-Writer, but I hope this helps. I use Nero to do mine.

Your image names would, of course be different depending on which distribution you get.
:
Howto burn an ISO image ?
All the CD-Writing software can use ISO image to burn directly a CD-Rom.

Important note: take care to download the ISO in binary mode (FTP). By default Netscape download the file in ASCII mode which corrupt the image. You can check the integrity of the ISO file with the md5 key (md5sum mandrake.iso under Linux), go to http://www.etree.org/md5com.html to get the md5sum.exe version if you are using Windows)

Please avoid downloading the ISO with a 56K modem line. If the download
fails you can use "Resume" which allows you to continue the download. It
works with ftp (reget), ncftp, CuteFTP, Getright, ...

With Easy CD Creator:
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Open Easy CD Creator
Go to "File"
then to "Create CD from disc image"
make sure to change the bottom drop down menu ("Files of type:") to say
"ISO image files"

It will do the rest after you browse to the *.iso file
(Thanks for zacheyer)

With WinOnCD:
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you can select a
"track-image" project when you click the New button. So long as you are
in track mode, not file-system mode (how that looks depends on whether
you have 3.0 or 3.5) then dragging a track image file onto the CD window
should accept it as a raw track. WinOnCD uses .RAW as its own
extension
(Thanks Rick Jones)

With Nero Burning Rom:
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Open Nero.
Close the wizard if it is started automatically.
Go to "File"
then to "Burn Image...".
In the next dialog, click on "Image Files (*.nrg)" and select "All files
(*.*)".
Choose the .iso file and accept.
In the following dialog make sure:
- Type of Image is: Data Mode 1
- Block size: 2048
- Image header: 0
- Image trailer: 0
- All the checkboxes are unactive.
Click "OK".
In the next dialog check that the "write" and "finalize" option are active.
Click on "Write".
(Thanks Antonio Asensi)

With CD-Record:
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CD-Writing HowTo: http://howto.linuxberg.com/ptHOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO

For example:
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=4,0 mandrake.iso
You get the number on the SCSI bus number with "cdrecord --scanbus"

[ 17 September 2001: Message edited by: urinal cake ]