Mandrake 7.2

* Tyler Hall (plug@webfreaks.com) wrote:
> Already Tried that.. I didn't know if I had to make it a closed session or
> whatever, but i've tried every feature, and it still doesnt work.. ;)
>
> *grumbles*
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Toft" <george@georgetoft.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 9:59 AM
> Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2
>
>
> > Try making another CD from your ISO image? I bought a 100 pack
> > of CD-R's and about 10% of them have scratches in them and won't
> > make a CD properly.
> >
> > George
> >
> >
> > Tyler Hall wrote:
> >
> > > Greets;
> > >
> > > I seem to have a problem. I had a working CDR of Mandrake 7.2, so I
> made a
> > > cd image of it, and have it on my hard drive. Well, I lost that
> working
> > > cd, so I burned another cd with the cd image that I have of it, all the
> > > files are on it and whatever, but it won't boot from startup. When it
> > > checks for cdrom, it says failed, like its not a bootable cd. But, if i
> put
> > > it in, when Windows is running, it popups with some annoying screen
> about
> > > linux mandrake.
> > >
> > > Is there any reason why it wouldnt make it a boot cd, from a boot image?
> Am
> > > I doing something wrong?
> > >
> > > -Tyler

Tyler,

Not to exasperate you for details, but I've been duping some CDs this
week (mac OS ... for personal backups), and I'm wondering how you copied the
iso onto your HDD.  Did you use dd?  If so, making an exact duplicate should be
as easy as: 
    % cdrecord -v YOUR_OPTIONS_HERE my_mandrake.(iso|raw|watevr)

Can you mount the iso via the loop device? From the manual( with mods for
situation):

THE LOOP DEVICE
       One further possible type is a mount via the loop  device.
       For example, the command

       mount /tmp/myimage /mnt -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop3,blocksize=1024

If you can, that's a good thing(), next since you're having problems with
the booting check out the boot or image dirs (idk which on that cd) and
make sure you have some boot.cat or boot.catalogue (though it could be
anything). If those are there, the iso is more likely bootable (not a
thorough test, sorry) and the above cdrecord option should get you your
bootable iso.

Let's get it.
Gontran

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