booting from newly burned CD

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-09-27 00:45, Andrey Andreev whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

> Steven C. Liu wrote:
>
>> Pardon this very newbie question, but I just burned all four CD's 
>> (FC2-i386-discN.iso) onto a CDRW drive on a XP Pro machine and want 
>> to use disc1 to boot up and begin the config process for a clunky 
>> leftover PC of mine.  I did go into setup to verify that the CD ROM 
>> drive is in the boot sequence, and is before the C drive.
>
>
> You have to use "Burn image" in your recording software, instead of 
> just copying the *.iso file to the drive.
>
> When you Explore your CDRW in XP, you shall be seeing a whole lot of 
> files on it, not just the .iso file.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> //Andro
>
Even if you have burned the CDRWs correctly, there may still be a more 
basic problem.  I know from personal experience that certain older 
models of CD drives simply cannot read CDRW disks.  If the target 
machine can be booted with MS-DOS or something that you would expect to 
let you read files from the CD, then try reading a regular CD, and then 
a CDRW. 

-- 
Fritz Whittington
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