Trying to make a bootable DVD disk from a Fedora Core 6 iso image

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Thursday 30 November 2006 23:27, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   Okay, okay, now I am able to burn a Fedora Core 6 DVD iso image to
> disk.  The only problem now is that it only seems to make a copy of
> the DVD iso image onto the disk instead of making a bootable disk and
> creating files that I can actually see when the disk is finished
> being burned.  I am using k3b as my burning software.  Again, what
> gives? After googling and seeing that my original problem was a disk
> limitation size of 2 GB, I bought a dual layer disk to burn the image
> onto it. I never had this problem when trying to burn regular CD's to
> put Fedora on it.  Please help.

Jeffrey:
You must have misunderstood the thread that you initiated earlier this 
week. When you burn the .iso file to DVD, k3b will convert it into a 
series of directories and files (mostly .rpms, but lots of other 
goodies, too) during the burning process. And you don't need a dual 
layer disk, either.

Here's how I do it:
1. Place a blank DVD in your drive. (I use generic DVD-R disks because 
that's what I have.)
2. Start k3b.
3. Point it at the .iso file. k3b will automagically understand what it 
is supposed to do.
4. I always change the default settings to let k3b select the burn 
speed, and I also tell k3b to verify the written disk.
5. The burning process took a little over five minutes.
6. At the conclusion of the burning process, the disk is ejected and 
reinserted, and the verification process begins. FWIW, that took 
another 6+ minutes.
7. If all has gone well, the DVD is ejected and triumphal music is 
played.
8. Close k3b, and you're done.

-- cmg