The Download Install ISO Thing?

[NetManRob]

Calling anyone with the time and patience to help a floundering idiot. At least that is what I feel like at the moment.

To begin with, I have a compelling reason to install RedHat on my server-to-be computer. Last week a friend loaned me his Redhat 7.1 distro, I burned copies and was all ready to install when lo and behold this week 7.3 was introduced. Well, I wanted it of course, don't we always want the latest and greatest? So as soon as it hit the mirror sites, I downloaded the ISOs.

Now, here comes the strange part. I used a program called ISO Buster, extracted them to a CD, and got ready to hit the install; only CD-1 won't boot. So, I made a bootable floppy with Rawrite and it boots just swell, until it is time to point it to the CD and it can't find it?? Mind you, it boots just fine to the RedHat 7.1 CD-1 even without a floppy.

I booted up to Windoze and examined the directory structure of both RH 7.1 and RH 7.3 (CD-1) and they are virtually identical (7.3 has a ton more readmes and distro notes), but there didn't appear to be any significant differences.

What is going on here? Any ideas?? This is my very first experience with ISOs and at the moment I rue the day I heard the term.

Thanks,

Rob

 

[Guest_imported]

I had this a little while back...if you have Easy CD Creator by ?Hp ?Adaptec? click on "file" menu, look down to "create CD from disk image"

good hunting

 

[RhythmAce]

You may already know this but if you burned them onto cd-rw rather than cd-r, you will only be able to boot from the drive that they were burned on.

 

[KarveR]

*tip*
If you use nero software, rename the files form *.iso to *.nrg ,next double click your new .nrg file and nero sorftware will start, click ok on the first dialogue box, and nero will burn you your bootable CD. ***************************************
Party on, dudes!

 

[alpha4eva]

if i'm not wrong, when you extract everything to the hard drive, you took the boot sector away,

try this, use winiso and make an iso image of that folder that you extracted out, and if you open that newly created image with isobuster and on the left you see it's bootable, then i'm wrong, but if you don't see it say bootable then that's the problem.

it's better just to burn the software as the image file, b/c the boot sector is still there,

try it and see

 

[NetManRob]

Thanks guys for all of the great tips. Turns out I was just trying to make this WAY too hard.

I have EZ CD Creator and sure 'nuff when I tried the "create CD from image file" option everything worked just like it was supposed to. I had visited that option before, but because the default image format is something other than ISO, it didn't "see" my file. I didn't pause long enough to realize you could select ISO from a drop-down list.

Anyway, everything is wonderful in Linuxland and I really appreciate your responses and all of the expert help. I'm now looking forward to my new Apache server!!