Re: burning a redhat cdrom

[Chris Watt <cnww chebucto ns ca>]

At 03:36 PM 9/27/00 -0400, Eudes Habambyingwe wrote:

>What did I do wrong? 
>Yes I read the related Howto.

Amazingly enough this is not the first time I've seen this (the first time
I laughed myself silly, this time I'll be more polite). The .iso file
extension is short for "ISO-9660" the primary filesystem standard for PC
cd-roms.  As such a file (typically around 650mb) ending in .iso is an
IMAGE FILE OF A CD FILE SYSTEM. This image file works in much the same
fashion as the boot.img file you may have written to a floppy disk. You'll
note that simply copying boot.img to a DOS formatted floppy disk does not
tend to produce a workable Linux boot disk, and the same principle applies
to the .iso cd images. In order for it to be useful you must create the cd
filesystem based on the image, simply copying the image as a file into
another filesystem is NOT useful, as such you have burnt a useless cd
(unless you want to use it as a source medium when creating a redhat
install disk). Most Windows cd-burning software has the option to burn a cd
from an ISO image file (e.g. in Adaptec Easy CD creator I would hit "Create
CD from Disk Image" and then tell it to use the .iso file as an image) and
cdrecord in Linux certainly does support iso disc images.
AFAIK there is no HOWTO and no reason to have a HOWTO about making Redhat
cd's from .iso files, it's generally a "push two buttons and wait for your
burner to finish" process. The only HOWTO I've seen is an old document
dealing with how to create a Redhat install cd based on the install files
you would get from an ftp site, and that document is totally inapplicable
to this situation.
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Who is this General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk?