Re: how to copy a live-cd? (Followup)

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Author: Craig White
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: how to copy a live-cd? (Followup)
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 08:45, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> On Sunday 24 October 2004 05:56 pm, Bart Garst kindly wrote:
>
> > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/some/file/soewhere.iso
> > > and then burn the iso from k3b.
> >
> > Siri, if you try this method, please report to the list if it worked or
> > not. The last time I tried to create an iso image with dd it failed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bart
>
> It didn't work. Copied OK to my harddrive and K3B burned it fine. I had it
> verify the burn, too. But it isn't a bootable disc. It's a live-cd; I need it
> to be bootable. Any other suggestions?

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sounds like that machine isn't booting CD's at all. Have you tried to
boot other things on that computer - say a Windows CD? Is your BIOS set
to boot from CD?

Craig

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