I am having a hell of a time creating a bootable ISO image DVD and I am not sure if it is the burning software or what.

I have downloaded an iso file for Fedora 10 i386. I am using Power2Go to burn a bootable file onto the DVD.

AFter the burn process, I have three files on the DVD
- Bootctg.bin 2kb
- bootimg.bin 348 MB
- Fedora-10-i386-DVD 349 MB


I pop the DVD into computer and double check the bios to make sure the DVD is the first to boot.

I restart the machine, and I just get a blinking cursor, no automatic startup.

I've repeated this procedure three times, all with the same results.

I acquired the iso image from the fedoraproject site. I use LeechGet to download the iso and the following URL (the server changed each time I used the download URL)

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pu...0-i386-DVD.iso

Any other troubleshooting steps that I need to do? Ready to pull my hair out.....if I had any that is.

Can you download another ISO, and see if it works? It can be a small one, like DSL, or Puppy,. This would narrow it down to either the ISO you downloaded, or a media problem.

IGF

Eliminate the variables.

You downloaded an image file but did you specifically burn the file as an image file? Bootable has no effect; only an image will boot. If you are not sure, you can use this, where that possibility is clearly indicated.

http://cdburnerxp.se/

You should be using a good quality medium and burning at a slow speed. If you still have a problem, you might burn to a CD instead of a DVD.

Have Luck and Patience

Please dont confuse with "Creating bootable ISO image". Thats total different thing. As far as your problem is concern just get a blank DVD-R/DVD-RW disk and grab ISO from website and burn it by using Nero or any other CD/DVD burning software with using the "Burn Image" option. Dont write ISO Image as file on DVD. Only use "Burn Image" Option

Hope this will help

Regards,
Danish Usman

All right, here is what I did for burning iso images to CDs, not the DVD, for Fedora 10.

This is running on Ubuntu 6.06. I downloaded the .iso file to the hard drive. Put the CD into the CD drive. I got a prompt when I closed the CD drive "You have inserted a blank disc. What would you like to do?

Make Audio CD, Make Data CD, Ignore.

I select ignore.

I then right click on the .iso image, and select the option burn to disk. This selected the slowest speed, 4x.

After the first disk image was burned, I ejected it then re-inserted it.

I then double click on the disk image on my desktop, and it opens, with files and folders in it, which indicates that I have burned the cd properly, otherwise I would simply see the .iso file.

One of these is instructions for burning .iso files, README-BURINING-ISOS-en_US.txt.

There is a folder marked images.

In that there is a file called boot.iso

I copied that to my desktop, ejected the CD, inserted a new blank CD, then repeated the process for this.

I take the boot disk, put it in the CD drive for the computer I want to install Fedora on, and I get a message Welcome to Fedora 10

The first option is install or upgrade an existing system, with that selection automatically used in one minute if you don't do anything.

This means though that instead of using the DVD, you will be cutting 6 CD images, plus the boot image off the first CD image.

Hope this helps someone.

for me how I got Fedora 10 on cd as a boot ISO(I'm using Vista) is I went to URL="http://http://www.ntfs.com/iso-burning.htm"][/URL] and got the Freeware Version and instilled it and incerted a blank cd and selected the iso file and it burned it very easly and so far it has worked..im trying a dvd now and it looks like it is going to work with Active@ ISO burner

If you have the FC10 ISO image file, then you need to burn that ISO file to the DVD, without any other tweaking. Simply burn the ISO image file. The image is a complete copy of a bootable DVD disk.

Linux Archive

Fedora itself will be having a CD/DVD writer software...
1. Right click on the downloaded iso image and select copy.
1.Put a blank DVD into your Drive.
2.go to Desktop -> Places -> Cd/DVd writer.
3.A new window opens.
4.paste the iso image there.
5.click write to disk.
6.click create from image.
7.done.

The easiest way to make a bootable disk from a downloaded iso is to use a bootable Linux like Knoppix. Then find K3b which should be under Multimedia, and use this. When loaded it gives you an option Burn DVD iso image. Direct this option to your iso download file, and it does everything for you. It has never failed with me. I hope this helps.