Hi everybody, this is actually my first post....hehe yeah...anyways...

I'm currently running a one year and six month old hp pavilion a250n with
P4 2.6 GHz
512 MB of RAM
a 100 GB Hard Drive
a dvd/cd writer
oh and a P4SD-LA MoBo w/onboard sound

and i'm on Red Hat 9, i just downloaded SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso (actual filename) from the ftp it is 2.0 GB and i was wondering:
a.) if i had to put a boot file in it (which i have also downloaded)
b.) how to do so/actually burn it to a dvd (like what to use and where to get it from)
c.) and currently i have no sound, will i have that same problem on SUSE?

actually i should re-iterate that, the cd/dvd burning sofware i have doesn't work, i got a guide-ish thing from the Novell site, but that doesn't help me much.i have grip (?) and XcdRoast

use k3b under X or dvdrecord from the console!

example for dvd/cdcrecord:
/usr/local/bin/dvdrecord -v -dao -force fs=8m speed=1 dev=1,0,0 /dvd.iso

cool, i'll try that when i get home thank you very much

this is a live issue for me - I've got SuSE 9.0 Pro dual boot with Win XP - was looking to upgrade to 9.2.
I've downloaded the 3.1Gb ISO image and used k3b to burn it to DVD. Seemingly no problem there - however - it won't boot following an init 6 - what have I omitted/done wrong??

no longer a live issue - should have burnt an image, not just copied the ISO file directly to DVD.
Now composing this reply from within Konqueror on KDE on 9.2 Pro

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i was trying to download k3b, and mozilla just brings up a page that looks like that

nvm about that i got it

almost overlord73
but i get this error

[root@localhost root]# /usr/bin/dvdrecord -v -dao -force fs=8m speed=1 dev=1,0,0 /home/cesar/downloads/SUSE-L
inux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso
dvdrtools v0.1.3
Portions (c) 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
Based on:
Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J?rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
/usr/bin/dvdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily-RH-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.69-R
H-O_EXCL '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.69 02/01/18 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'HP '
Identifikation : 'DVD Writer 300n '
Revision : '1.25'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
FIFO size : 8388608 = 8192 KB
Track 01: data 2048 MB
Total size: 2352 MB (233:01.01) = 1048576 sectors
Lout start: 2352 MB (233:03/01) = 1048576 sectors
Current Secsize: 0
/usr/bin/dvdrecord: Input/output error. read disk info: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 3A 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x00 (medium not present) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 240s
/usr/bin/dvdrecord: Cannot get disk type.
/usr/bin/dvdrecord: Data will not fit on any disk.
/usr/bin/dvdrecord: Cannot write CD's >= 100 minutes.
[root@localhost root]#

i feel like a total n00b now....i just figuered out why it wasn't working....i bought the wrong kind of blank dvds....
anyone who plans on burning a linux .iso to a dvd:
Make Sure You Know What Your DVD burner can burn to....
ex.
DVD-R; DVD+R

well i got blank dvd+rw's but X-cd-roast doesn't see it as a dvd
and when i start it up it only says create cd not create cd/dvd
is there something i did wrong?