ISO confusion

[JALU]

I am trying to burn the ISO's for Mandrake 8.0 to cd. I want to make them bootable and all that jazz. I am not at all familiar with this at all. In windows you just select and ISO disk image and EasyCD writes it to a cd and it's bootable. I read like 20 nhf files, and I went to linuxiso.org and read the how-to's but I couldn't find anywhere that told me what to do if I already have an *.iso. They all wanted to us the mkisofs command. I just don't get this and I would appreciate anyone who could point me in the right direction, or tell me how. I was using XCDRoaster, but the idea of using cdrecord doesn't scare me if I know what to tell it.

Thanks much in advance.

[padillah]

In windows just use EasyCD Creator. When you click the menu option to "Create CD From Image..." in the "Open" dialog change the type from *.cif to *.iso.

They still work in Linux and you will never know the difference. I've done it with RedHat several times.

[JALU]

Thanks, but the reason I am having trouble is that I don't have windows. I know EasyCD like the back of my hand, but I an a pretty much a newbie in the realm of linux cd burning. :confused:

[bdg1983]

Does XCDRoaster not have the ability to 'Create CD from Image'?

Have you read the XCDRoaster documentation that should be included with the package?

[Strike]

I just do...
cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=8 -eject -v blah.iso

[JALU]

Thanks everyone. I just used cdrecord from the cli, it was kind of a rush. EVerything worked great. Got my Mandrake 8.0beta 2 installed, and it is nice(to me). Nice to know I can get things done without that horrid mouse. And just to cover my bases, please, for those people who must bash, don't tell me how much Mandrake sucks. It works for me, and believe me, if you bash my os it sure isn't gonna make me want to use the same flavor as you. :rolleyes:

[mandreko]

It works for me, and believe me, if you bash my os it sure isn't gonna make me want to use the same flavor as you.

I don't know about everyone else, but i really like that attitude... linux and open source, is all about making decisions, and having the right to do what you want, and people should help new users decide what distro, but not tell them they're using the wrong one... everyone has their own rights... i'm sure there's someone out there still running redhat 1.0, just because they like a certain feature...

[Jakie]

I use Mandrake too, and am proud of it :)

Too much zealotery (is that a word??) of certain distro's (hint hint Debian users) isn't gonna make me change it either :p

All have their good and bad.
It's all about choice.

[Jakie]

I use Mandrake too, and am proud of it :)

Too much zealotery (is that a word??) of certain distro's (hint hint Debian users) isn't gonna make me change it either :p

All have their good and bad.
It's all about choice.

[Strike]

mandreko, I'd be REALLY surprised if someone was running RH1.0

anyway, Mandrake is a good newbie distro. Or at least it was when I started about a year and a half ago. Live it up. But know that you can change later if you want more power.