Creating bootable linux CDROM using XP

[Scott Mellott]

There are freeware burners out there that can do the trick:
http://www.download.com/Burn4Free-CD-DVD/3000-2646-10323175.html?tag=lst-0-10

Scott

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> 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.
> 

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