Creating bootable linux CDROM using XP

[Bill McGonigle]

On Oct 3, 2004, at 21:51, Michael ODonnell wrote:

> so when I
> dragged&dropped the Debian ISO onto the CD it
> was just copied onto the CD as plain old data.

If the .iso is of a bootable CD-ROM all you have to do is write the 
bits to disk as-is.

The first 1.44 or 2.88 MB of the disk image is basically a DOS-type 
floppy image that gets booted which then boots the CD-ROM (El Torito 
format).

Perhaps when you drag&drop the CD software is reading the disk image 
format (is it FAT?) and remastering, losing the El Torito disk image.

You want something that can explicitly burn a disk image.  Perhaps the 
windows utility can't do that but Nero can?  Or you can find someone 
with linux or a mac to write it for you...

-Bill
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