Burning Linux CDs

[slowlearner]

I have a Mandrake 7.1 CD that I downloaded as an iso image and then burned to a CD. That was last summer and I no longer have the original image. I wanted to burn a copy for a friend of mine, so I tried to burn from CD to CD (in windows Easy CD Creator) but that wouldn't work, so I tried creating it as an iso on the hard drive and then burning it to disk. This appeared to work, the autorun works and I was able to create a boot floppy with rawwrite. Then I tried using the CD to do an install and I get an error that the CDRom does not seem to be a Mandrake CD. Could this be because I copied it in Windows? The original download and burn was done in Windows with no problems. Has anyone else had this problem? I would advise my friend to download 7.2, but I haven't been hearing very great things about it and I know 7.1 is ok because I use it. Would I be better off to try burning it under a Linux app.?

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We do not inherit the Earth, we borrow it from our children.

[prince_kenshi]

There is nothing wrong with doing it in Windows. Linux cd's use standard iso images just like Windows. It should copy from cd to cd too. It sounds like you have a hardware problem or maybe your software to copy it is corrupt.

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Prince Kenshi
Son of Bahamut

[prince_kenshi]

I use Nero to copy cd's by the way. It has a lot of options and makes copying from cd to cd easy.

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Prince Kenshi
Son of Bahamut

[lynch]

I have copied MDK 7.1 using EZ CD Creator's CD Copier and it worked great.I have standard ver.4.02.
lynch

[slowlearner]

Well, thanks for the input...guess I'll give it another shot...The CD I was copying from still works fine so I don't think that's the problem...My EZ CD Creator is ver. 4.03...I actually had this problem copying 7.0 as well, but on another PC, so I don't think it's hardware. And I was also able to burn a Storm2000 install disk with this current equipment. Oh well, back to the drawing board. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

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We do not inherit the Earth, we borrow it from our children.

[FoBoT]

sometimes you just get a bad burn
when something like this happens, i try lowering the write speed on the burn, if your burner writes at 4x, try doing a copy a t 2x, sometimes that helps
also, if you were burning straight cd to cd, try having it use your hard drive to buffer the file (i forget the exact setting, look around for where is lets you give it a temp directory)

[kowalsky]

for my EZ CD Creator the option is to check a radio button that enables "Copy to HD first".

I don't know of any issues with copying under win, the only trouble you may have is with file transfer when even when you ftp a binary the CRs are interpreted differently under win and Linux.
In the case of CD copying you're handling iso formats for some images - i did this 2 days ago and it worked just fine. (download was with ftp on a win98 box, the CDs were burned also under win98, Linux install worked like a charm).
kowalsky

[stretchjn]

Most likely EZCD isn't burning in the correct format, I think by default is soemthing like cd-rom xa. Try this

put the iso on your hd
choose File>'Create CD from Disc image'
select the iso9660 type and your image
choose create cd, tao and close

worked for me

Peace

Stretch

[slowlearner]

hmmm tao....I used dao and close disk....could that be the problem?

[Kardinal]

Clone CD will do the job perfectly. http://cdrsoft.m3dzone.com/index2.html

[stretchjn]

yeah dao could be the problem, one way to find out: burn away