Isos do not boot

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Wed Mar 31 08:54:53 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:25 -0500, Michael Weiner wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:15, jludwig wrote:
> > Have you made sure that the cd-burner program is copying an image and
> > not a file? If you just directly burn the iso it will be copied as a big
> > file not as an image of a disk.
> 
> This is a known issue currently in bugzilla, the temporary work around
> is to boot off fc1 cd1 or fc2 test1 cd1 and at the boot: prompt, swap
> in the fc2 test2 cd1. 
> 
> Alternately you can boot/install from an ISO. 
> But thats another discussion altogether.

How hard would it be for them to include a boot floppy image on the CD?
Mandrake does - and that's what it took for me to install Community
Download 10 ... I might try Mandrake's floppy - but I kind of doubt it
will do the trick. The image would (I think) have to have same name on
the CD.





More information about the fedora-list mailing list