Creating bootable linux CDROM using XP

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:32:50PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> 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...

To the best of my knowledge (since I've run into this problem before) - 
the Windows utility can't, and Nero can. EasyCD Creator makes it 
possible, but difficult to find, I think. Windows just burns the .iso as 
a file.

I believe Nero has a 30 day trial that you can download, as that's what 
I remember doing in the past, but it was a year ago, so I could be 
wrong.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
crschmidt at crschmidt.net
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