Mandrake 7.2

[Tyler Hall]

No, I was using windows, using Adptect CD Creator ;)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gontran" <locuchon@azstarnet.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: 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
>
> --
> Moby Moby Moby
>
>
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