Hello,

I recently downloaded the latest RH9 distro from Red Hat's site to my WXP PC (total of 3 "disks"). I am able to burn the images to CD, but am not able to get them to boot!

My WXP PC has Roxio Easy CD creator 5 on it; I chose the option in Roxio to make a "bootable" CD when burning them, but they're not booting afterwards! I also tried burning them with the options to use "floppy disk emulation", "disk emulation" and
"no emulation", same result. I didn't find anything in Red Hat's database that mentioned this specifically.

This may be a question for Roxio (checking on that), but I figured I would start here. If anyone has a HOWTO somewhere with instructions for using Roxio to burn RH OS cd's, I would greatly appreciate it.

--BC

Well I used Nero Ultra 6 when I burned mine but I did it this way:

File (or someplace in the menu) is a command for 'burn .iso'. That should be all the option that you need. That should copy the files onto the CD and enable them to run when you boot to the CD.

Also, make sure that in your BIOS you're setup to boot from a CD before the HDD.

If you're not familiar with this restart your computer & hit 'del' (or F2 in some cases). It'll enter the BIOS setup and you should check on your boot settings. A lot of times it is A (floppy) followed by HDD and/ or CD-ROM drive. Make sure that CD comes before HDD so it'll access the CD before it looks to the HDD to boot.

If you've already made sure of that then refer to the beginning section of the email. 'burn image' or 'burn iso' should be the option your looking for. I had the same problem my first couple of times.

This is what I found when googling:

http://www.litrux.com/content.nsf/do...at=howto&s=all

This looks good, but still would appreciate any replies/suggestions.

Does that still not work for you? You've followed those instructions on the site verbatim?

I'm assuming your BIOS setup is correct then as well.

The function you want is to burn an iso image and not create a bootable. (the iso image when transferred to the CD is bootable and Roxio doesn't have to do anything other than put the image on the CD)

When you tell Roxio to make a bootable, it will put a collection of files and a boot image on the CD and create the file system and so on. This is not what you want. This is somewhat like using the cp command.

What you want is to transfer the ISO image directly to the CD. I believe this is in Roxio's file menu and I think you will have a choice of ISO image or something else in the file type dialog. This is more like using the dd command.

Be sure you burn the ISO image at the slowest speed possible for maximum accuracy. If you don't, the installer will detect the smallest defect and fail.

I use Nero 5 and it too needed to be run at the slowest setting of 4X.

Man, spent 20 minutes preparing a reply but apparently it didn't post :-( Anyway, still having problems so I will post the results here of my follow-up attempts.

Thanks again for the help everyone.

Hello again,

Well, I have managed to burn the ISO image to CD (verified this from both RH and WXP) but it's still not booting.

Yes, I did follow the link that I posted (to the letter;
FWIW, the option to choose is actually
"create CD hard disk image" and not "create CD
from hard disk image"). I also tried "create CD from CD image",
same result when booting though.

Yes, my BIOS is set to boot CD-->FD--HD;
also tried FD->CD->HD, same result.

Yes, I chose to burn the image at 4X speed, same result.

The article I mentioned before says not to burn the ISO image, but to burn the CD image to CD, which I have also done with no success.

I quote:

"Important notes:

To create a bootable CD from an ISO image, you must burn the actual CD image onto the CD. Burning the ISO file to the CDROM will not produce a usable disc."

My images don't appear to be corrupt or anything; I didn't run the md5sum script but the disk sizes match up from the RH site.
I have downloaded these images a few times now (always in binary mode when using the ftp cli) since Easy CD Creator looks to delete the images after it makes a project.

Also, another option is to just download the image to disk and boot from a floppy and specify a target iso location:

http://www.redhat.com/download/howto...oad.html#write

Finally, If anyone has successfully done this with Roxio Easy CD Creator 5, I would really like to know before I try another burning package.

Thanks again,

Hello,

I have performed the upgrade procedure using the RH9 CD images while they reside on "hard" disk on a 2nd PC (running
RH 7.2), and that works as advertised (until I ran out of disk space and the upgrade aborted :-( Why didn't I get a warning about disk space before the install, like I do when I install/upgrade RH from CD? Just wondering..).

I would still like to know though if anyone has successfully used Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 to burn their Linux distros. So far, everyone I have talked to has used something else. Apparently this is supposed to work, based on what I have found on the net.

If ever come to resolution, I will definitely post it here.

I got RH8 and Freebsd with Roxio 5
on a Win2K box last year or the year before I don't remember


but as anyone who knows me can tell ya
the Iso were the only things that I burned that would work as advertised

every thing else audio cds data cds all that
never would work right

I have successfully burned RH9 and other distros via Easy CD Creator.

Once you have the iso on the hard drive and the blank cd in the drive you need to and Roxio has opened:

File-->Record cd from cd image -->change the "files of type" from cif to iso-->browse to iso-->open it

I burn at the lowest and slowest setting - just to be sure (I have been known to make a number of coasters!).

Boot from cd and away you go.

Hehe, I hear ya XavierP, I have a "coaster" for each room in the house now from this little exercise..

OK, I followed XavierP's recommendations (chose 2x burn speed, versus 4x during my last attempts; BIOS is set to boot from
CD->FD->DISK) and the CD still didn't boot. NOTE: a RH 6.1 CD that I have boots fine from the same system, so I know it's not a problem with the CDROM drive.

HOWEVER, I was able to workaround this as follows:
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1.
Made a boot floppy from the CD that I just made:

i. Zeroed a floppy disk out:
#dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

ii. Wrote the boot image:
#dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

2. Set "FLOPPY-->CD--DISK" boot order from BIOS.
The CD that I just burned is still in the CD drive.

3. Was able to boot from the floppy, where I see the RH9 banner
(yay!).

4. My system discovers the CD media, verifies it and gives it a
passing grade (yay!) and off I go. I still have to burn disc2
and disc3, though.

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For what it's worth, my WXP system is using Home Edition (SP1)versus Professional. Wonder if that makes a difference?

The images look OK on the CD (to me, anyway) and RH doesn't have a problem with it either, based on #4 above.

Aside from maybe changing some of the other Roxio options during the burn process, I suppose I may look into another burning package but I am satisfied with this workaround for now.

Thanks for the help and I hope the above helps someone in a similiar situation as mine.

ive been selling disk light kits with my junk cd's thats another story roxio may be a good program tocopy small files and or cd to cd but from the web in 600 mb files nope its a joke downloaded RH 9.0 6 times each time roxio turned it in to a iso file found a program to unconvert it but still having problems. so i when to ebay and found a gent thats selling RH 9.0 for 7.00 you will need to make a boot disk to load the sofeware have RH 9.0 up and running now. now comes the next stage.

I've used several version of Easy CD creator to generate bootable Redhat CDs. It sounds like you are creating CDs projects and putting the ISO in the project and burning it, and telling your project to be bootable.

One way of looking at an ISO is a pre-packaged CD project. You want to burn the CD that is packaged in the ISO not the ISO file itself.

Actually, possibly the best way to do this would be to second mouse click (sometime referred to as right-clicking) and choosing 'Record to CD' from the context menu that comes up. This option should occur anytime you second mouse click a *.iso file if you let Easy CD Creator register itself to the shell correctly.

When you choose this option... a box should come up that will basically only give you the chance to pick how many copies, how fast, which burner, etc. It will not let you pick files, etc. This is because you aren't designing the CD you are burning, you're using the one designed and packaged in the ISO.

I hope that helps.

this last advice was "exactly" what I needed. Worked perfectly even at 24x! Thank You for making it simple!