ISO won't boot

[jmtjet]

I downloaded an ISO of RedHat 9.0, burned the 3 to CD's and tried to install to a clean harddrive. The CD will not boot.(set CD-ROM as first boot device)I had an older version of Redhat(7.3) put that in the drive and had no problems booting or installing. What would stop my burned ISO's from booting? I D/L'ed and burned them from Windows 2000 pro., would that make a difference? Thanks.

 

[sleipnir214]

The OS of the machine doing the burning does not matter. The last RH 9.0 CD set I burned, I did from a W2K Pro machine.

There are three possibilities that come to mind immediately:[ul][li][Just to ask the dumb question] Did you copy the ISO file to the CD, or did you use the ISO file as the CD data source?[/li][li]Have you tried burning another copy of the first CD? Sometimes you just get a bad burn.[/li][li]Are you sure that the ISOs you downloaded are good?[/li][/ul]

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[jmtjet]

Hi sleipnir, I used Nero Burning Rom software to burn the ISO's. I used drag-drop to burn the whole ISO file. Is this were I made my mistake? I don't want to try another burn till I find out what I did wrong. I D?L'ed the ISO's from this site:

http://www.linuxiso.org/

Thanks for your help. I'm hoping to learn Linux over the winter(long & cold here)

 

[sleipnir214]

If you look at the contents of the CD from your Win32 box, what do you see? A single file, or multiple files? You should see a bunch of files in a directory hierarchy.

I'm not familiar with Burning ROM, but in most burning software, the action you describe sounds like it will only copy the ISO to the CD.

I think in Nero, you go to the "Recorder" menu and select "Burn Image".




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[smah]

In the main Nero window, it's under File, Burn Image; or you can Open, change file type to Image Files (*,nrg, *.iso, *.cue), then select the iso file and burn.

 

[RhythmAce]

If you see an iso file instead of a directory structure, follow smah's advice. I love nero but it can't tell us dumb people from normal folks.