Great Birthday Present!

[Rastar]

Finally convinced the Wife that I needed a CD RW.
Unfortunately, I installed it on her M$ machine (don't ask)..

Anyway now that I have a 24X10X40 drive I was thinking about grabbing some of the other linux releases out there like slack, debian and a few others. I tried the PETs and cannot find one that explains how to make ISO's

The other question is the drive software has a way to make a disk bootable. Obviously that will be the needed position for software install at least on one disk. Will that make it bootable only for windows or does that matter?

Thanks.

Ras

[t048]

I tried the PETs and cannot find one that explains how to make ISO's

To make an ISO, you'd want to use the mkisofs program. Check out its man page for more details. To burn an ISO to cd, you'd use the cdrecord program.

[pbharris]

Hi Rastar,
I sue xcdroast for all that stuff, while the PET does not specifically say how to make an ISO, it is pretty easy in xcdroast and there is an option to make a bootable CD. pet is here:
http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/p...splay&id=8

[t048]

Just remembered:

Here is a great page about burning CDs in linux. It covers everything from making ISOs, burning data disks, burning music disks, setting up your burner, etc...

http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

[Rastar]

Thanks all but how do I do it from WinBlows?

Ras

[Feztaa]

God, I'm in the same situation as you are. Burner's in the 'doze box. :

As far as burning goes, try to find some freeware on tucows. All I can say is that finding freeware (that isn't time-limited trialware) for windows is hell. Good luck.

[stryder144]

Thanks all but how do I do it from WinBlows?

Ras

Go to www.linuxiso.org, they have the necessary information.

[Schotty]

If you grab a copy of www.goldenhawk.com's CDR-win software, the shareware will work, but at 1x (or something). *They do .iso's REALLY well. *IIRC. nero and adaptec do .iso's as well. *The question I have is -- what about your burner software package? *It should have come with something. *I personally love CDRWin the most -- has the mest reliability for duping and extracting raw data. *Clone CD aint bad either. *But for burning d/l iso's, CDRWin will be great.

//edit
Oh, I forgot to mention -- It seems that you were interested in how to make cd's bootable. Well, the iso will have that data in it already. But, thru the software, you can make any cd bootable. When you burn the slackware8 iso (or whatever) you wont have to do anything to make it bootable -- the iso has the data in it already.

[t048]

Thanks all but how do I do it from WinBlows?

Ras

The burner didn't come with software?

[Compunuts]

Well, since you just bought the CDRW, I'm pretty sure you already have the burning software you need such as Adeptec Easy CD creator ....

After you download the ISO, all you do is browse to the loacation of ISO, right click on them and there will have an option to make CDs. As Schotty said, the software to make it bootable is already there for most of the ISOs. If the distro is in RAW form, all you need to do is rename it to ISO ( Windows will bitch about changing extension and blah blah but don't worry about it ).

HTH ....

Oh BTW, if you are gonna ask some questions about Windows stuff, you might as well do it in some other forums except Linux ones since most posters seems to miss the thing you wrote about being in winders. Since it's in Linux software forum, they assume you are asking questions about Linux.