booting an iso
 

I burned one disc of debian woody and also Knoppix 3.3 using GnomeToaster. There was a little box to click to "make cd bootable" along with a place to fill in the blanks. The GnomeToaster instruction manual said to ignore this section. It said that if the iso was already set up to be bootable that filling in those fields might only cause problems. So I left them blank. I could not boot onto them. I Checked in the bios that cdrom was listed ahead of harddrive and it was. I tried each drive and niether worked. I have not done the md5 checksum procedure because I reasoned that how could they both possibly have gone bad. Or could they? How often does that happen? What else am I forgetting? The machine boots fine onto my storebought mandrake and red hat disks. I am going to figure out how to do the md5 checksum right now but something else is wrong.

you better check md5 each time it happens quite often that downloaded isos become corrupted

O.K. I checked the iso md5 just like it said at the Knoppix site. It came back O.k. What else? I am going to try deferring from the GnomeToaster manual and check the bootable box. In the meantime, any other thoughts?

Alright, I may have figured it out. I think I was making a mistake in GnomeToaster. I was dragging the iso onto a tracklist to copy onto the cd. But I have been searching the forums and I noticed another post about this. I need drag the iso onto a different menu so that the whole cd is the iso, not the track as a file on a data cd. So I did that and its half done burning. We will see in a minute if there is hope for me yet.

Yup
That was it
It seems like all my problems are like that
10 hours of research to find out I was one mouse click away from gettting it on the first try
KNOPPIX looks good. I think I will learn alot from it.

I'm having the exact same problem...wondering what you mean when you say?

Which different menu?

I've tried right-clicking the iso file and selecting boot image, which did not work. I've dragged the iso file all around in toaster and seems like no difference.

TIA

Ok. Im glad to get a chance to help.
This is what you do:
1. Have the iso in your home directory
2. Open GnomeToaster
3. on the bottom left side of the screen there are three little boxes stacked on top of each other
The top one looks like a folder
The second one has a blue letter "T"
The third one looks like a CD

4. Click the Blue "T"
This will change the box to the right
5. In the box in the upper right work your way to the iso
double-click home-your_home_name_here-the iso
6. Drag the iso into the box at the bottom of the screen
7. Now, click the 3rd box with the little CD
8. Click record and wait for your home-burnt iso!

Let me know how that works out for you O.K.?

just try a simple command line to burn iso images:

if 0,0,0 doesnt find your recorder, try

to find it's device number.


HTH,

Doug.

[root@localhost Kevin]# cdrecord speed=28 dev=0,0,0 KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-9-24-EN.iso
cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for 'KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-9-24-EN.iso'.
[root@localhost Kevin]# cdrecord speed=28 dev=0,0,0 /home/Kevin/KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-9-24-EN.iso
cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for '/home/Kevin/KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-9-24-EN.iso'.

ok. I wanted to try it. But I've fouled it up somehow.
What did I do wrong?

Thank you mightyKC...that worked great...booting suse live eval now.

(wondered what the blue T was)

Thanks again.

Just glad to get a chance to help

Oh, ermm... i dunno. I'm only really a newbie myself, but I'd guess that there's a problem with the read permissions for the file. I don't really know what to suggest, other than just use the other method which worked fine for you.

Maybe someone else could point out whats not right here ?


Doug.