booting from newly burned CD

Andrey Andreev andreev at cs.helsinki.fi
Mon Sep 27 05:45:32 UTC 2004


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

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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science





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