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I down loaded r/h 6.2 to my hard drive and burned it on a cd. The file name is redhat 6.2-i386.iso. When I try to run the disk no go. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong or what to do to open the cd?
thanks in advance
bob
there is no error when I try to browse in windows. It automatically goes to wordpad to open but times out. I tried booting up through it and no dice. What type of file is .iso. Does that have anything to do with it?
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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What software are you using to burn? It may have actually burned the .iso as one big file. You need software that understands that an iso is a CD image.
It downloaded as an .iso file. I must have did something when I downloaded it. How do you ensure that the file will download correctly? Also if it is downloaded to the hard drive shouldn't you be able to browse through the files?
Thanks for the help
bob
Bob, I think maybe you are failing to understand what an iso file is. An iso isn't really like a zip file. It's not made to be opened up and read from directly. Instead it is an image of a CD, and most burner software should have an option to burn from and ISO image, or in other words, expand the ISO file back onto a CD.
Example, I usually use Easy CD creator 4.0. If I open it up to create a data CD, under the <file> menu there is an option to 'Create CD from image'. If I select this option, then I can browse to the downloaded ISO image and it will create the CD from the image.
This is how Easy CD Creator works, but I think most burner software should have a similar function.
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