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Problems with Installation

I'm extremely new at this so bear with me. I'm trying to run SuSe 9.1 the evaluation CD. I used Nero to create a image file, I followed the steps to burn it to a CD. Now I setup BIOS to boot from a CD, but when I try to boot nothing happens just straight to Windows like it didn't read the CD. I would try a boot floppy but I don't know how to even do one and I don't have any Floppy's on me.

Also, I get the "Booting from CD" or whatever before starting up Windows. The BIOS I'm using is the Award Phoenix 6.0 I believe (No idea if that was anything to do with it)

I'm stuck. I don't know what to do next. Can you guys help me?

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

What do you see when you load the CD in Windows?

The only thing I can think of is that you burnt the ISO
file to CD rather than using it as an image.

Have a read here:
http://iso.linuxquestions.org/

Cheers,
Tink

Re: Problems with Installation

Quote:

Originally posted by EnerJaK
I'm extremely new at this so bear with me. I'm trying to run SuSe 9.1 the evaluation CD. I used Nero to create a image file, I followed the steps to burn it to a CD. Now I setup BIOS to boot from a CD, but when I try to boot nothing happens just straight to Windows like it didn't read the CD. I would try a boot floppy but I don't know how to even do one and I don't have any Floppy's on me.

Also, I get the "Booting from CD" or whatever before starting up Windows. The BIOS I'm using is the Award Phoenix 6.0 I believe (No idea if that was anything to do with it)

I'm stuck. I don't know what to do next. Can you guys help me?

Enableling booting from CD is only one step of the BIOS config process.

The other step is to determine the order in which devices are accessed for booting, and the CD must come before the hard drive, otherwise when the harddrive is checked and found to have a bootloader, it just boots from it.. Keep checking through the bios config and make sure BOTH CD booting is enabled and the CD-ROM device is checked before the harddrive.

I tried looking in the BIOS for anything regarding the CD booting but found nothing. Although the CDROM is in front of the HD.

The only thing I can think of is that you burnt the ISO
file to CD rather than using it as an image.

I don't know, how big is the ISO suppose to be? The one I had was about 650MB. Assuming I did burn it as a file how would I burn it as a image?

Quote:

Originally posted by EnerJaK
I don't know, how big is the ISO suppose to be? The one I had was about 650MB. Assuming I did burn it as a file how would I burn it as a image?

That's described in the link I posted ... what do you see
when you load that CD using explorer?

Cheers,
Tink

Hi,

Only today did I try the same thing. To burn your ISO file with nero you need to:

Load Nero

File -> Open -> Files of Type -> Image Files (*.nrg *.iso *.cue)

Pick the Suse ISO and then follow the normal burn instructions.

Hope this helps. Expect to see a lot more questions from me as I try out linux!

RossA