I have downloaded FC4-i386-DVD.iso and want to create a bootable DVD-R of Fedora 2.4. I did a checksum of the image to verify it downloaded successfully, and it has. I am using Windows XP and want to burn ISO images using CDBurnerXP.exe (Windows 32bit program). I can burn the fedora image to DVD just fine but it is not a linux bootable image? It can only be read by my Windows PC in form of the Fedora directory structure but it unrecogizable by a Linux host.

I thought the ISO image would contain the necessary Linux boot files as well? I don't want to use any native linux CD Recorder programs to do this since I don't have a Linux host built yet (catch 22).

I would like to use Windows XP CDBurnerXP or other Windows CDburnerS to create Linux bootable disk images.

Any advise would be much appreciated.

Hi and Welcome to LQ.org. Please check the following link for instructions about how to burn .isos with windows applications, the correct way

http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/howtoburn.html

Regards!

Using Nero, I have successfully burned bootable Fedora CDs before, but never the DVDs. The DVDs burn correctly as far as data is concearned, but will not boot as the CDs do.