I have downloaded RH shrike.iso dusk 1 into my home drectory on Linux. I m currently running RH 7.3. And want to upgrade to 9.0 using the cd's i create.

I have XcdRoast installed and running. What I am having trouble doing is figuring out how to burn the iso file on my cd and make it bootable.

I will add ios files 2 and 3 after I burn iso file 1.

Right now all I see of what I downloaded from redhat so far is one large iso file.

Thank you in advance for your help on this.

I am unfamiliar with the burning app you mentioned, but I think I can still provide a little help.

an ISO file is sort of like a giant zip file of a CD, or rather an image of that CD. It is much easier to download 1 single ISO than to download and arrange every single file on CD1 =)

Anyhow, when you attempt to burn the ISO, you can't treat it like normal data and just burn it to the CD, rather you need to look for an opition somewhere in your CD Burning Program that says something like: Make CD from Image. Then navigate to your ISO and select it. The program will then read the data in the ISO and burn the actual files, directories, and boot info to the CD rather than burning one big file.

Hope this helps!

(P.S. Writing this after 4hrs sleep. Sorry for poor form)

-KaosynnerST

Try the command line approach.

to create an iso of a cd use this command...
# mkisofs -J -r -T -o /tmp/your.iso /mnt/cdrom

to write a cd to your cdrom writer the command will be....
# cdrecord -eject -v speed=12 dev=0.0.0 /tmp/your.iso

r00tnuke

Move the .iso to the default directory you created during the XCD-Roast setup.You can then create the bootable installation CD(CD 1) by doing the following:

• On the main menu choose "Create CD"
• Then choose "Write Tracks"
• The iso should be displayed in the "Image-Information" window on the right.
• Choose "Master Tracks" and highlight the iso you want to burn and hit the "Add" button.
• Click on the "Accept Track Layout" and when it switches you to the "Write Tracks"page,click on the "Write Tracks" button at the bottom of the page.

That should do it.
HTH
lynch

Thanks for the help. I now have all three RH 9 iso files burned onto three cds and the cds each show the files and directories.

I changed my BIOS to boot from Cdrom, but it won't boot from cd1.

Can I boot from the floppy I made for 7.3 and install 9.0 that way? Or do I need to make a boot floppy for 9.0?

dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0

Well, I finally got the RedHat 9 iso files to boot from a CD. I tried the floppy and it didn't work.
Here is how I did it, in case someone else out there is running into the same trouble as I did.

First, I am going to assume you already have XCdRoast installed on your system. That is what I used for burning the CD's

Next I made a directory in my home directory called RH9, and in that directory I made three directories named disc1, disc2 and disc3.

I then downloaded the three iso images from RH using Gftp into the directoires I made for each. Once done, I did the following steps to the first CD only to make it a bootable CD.

I setup CdRoast with an image directory where the first iso resided.
/home/self/RH9/disc1/

Then clicked on Create CD
Click Master Tracks, opened tab "boot Options"where it says make CD bootable? I chose "El Torito."
Where it says "boot image" I inserted images/bootdisc.img
After that I chose create session/image
Blank CDRW. When done I just burned the first CD.
With the next 2 CDs. I did the same thing as 1 except I did not make them bootable.

When all three Cds were done, I rebooted my system, changed my Bios to boot from CD. And it worked!! Not a single problem was encountered while upgrading from 7.3 to 9.0.

Thanks everyone for all your help!