FC5 : burn ISO with K3B under Gnome??

[Grumpy_Penguin]

On Sunday 10 September 2006 11:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 10 September 2006 19:19, Beartooth wrote:
> > I downloaded the live CD of Puppy Linux, and tried to burn it to a CD.
> > K3B has a specially setting for burning ISOs -- the puppy page had told
> > me to look for that -- but only for DVDs. K3B wouldn't let me use it.
> >
> > So I burned the file to a CD, and burning appeared to work, including
> > checking; but the CD won't boot.
> >
> > I had similar troubled when I tried to burn my own CDs to upgrade from
> > FC3 to FC4; never did get it to work, and eventually got my FC4 and FC5
> > media from elsewhere.
> >
> > I don't see sense in using a DVD for something designed to go with tons
> > of room left over, on a CD. (Puppy is under 72 MB) Besides, I want to try
> > it on machines that don't *have* DVD readers, nor want them.
> >
> > I don't often burn any CD, and may be making some obvious error. What is
> > it??
>
> There shouldn't be any problem about burning the CD with Tools > Burn CD
> Image.  I've often done it.  It's a silly mistake in the menu that
> particularly mentions ISO on the DVD one but not on the CD one.
just to be on the safe side when you get the burn CD image screen in the upper 
right hand corner where it says image type . Set it to iso 9660 image then 
set your speed to around 1/3 your normal CD burning speed
[you should be good to go]
>
> Anne