Thank you everyone, I am using ISO Recorder to burn it to a CD.

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My problems don''t seem to be over yet. When I insert the disk, it does not boot from it. Because of this, I tried a floppy disk. However, RARWRITE isn''t letting me write to the disk, as it never actually copies the file, and it claims the file is too large to move if I try to do it manually.

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Did you tell your BIOS to try to boot from CD before Floppy/HD? If so, do you get some kind of error message when it tries?

You can use the command line tool "cdrecord" to burn an iso. It comes with most linux distros.

I find K3B quite nice.

I have set the boot preferences, yet nothing is happening, it bypasses the CD and goes straight to the evrsion of Linux installed. Can I run everything from inside my Linux distro>

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By boot preferences do you mean BIOS boot sequence or LILO/Grub options?

quote: Original post by Doc
By boot preferences do you mean BIOS boot sequence or LILO/Grub options?

BIOS options are set, I am not sure how to change the LILO/RUB settings for this.



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So is there any indication that the BIOS tried to boot off the CD? If it is trying - beats me. Might just be a bad burn or something. If it's not trying then it might be a problem with your BIOS. Can it boot off other CDs (like win install CD for example)?

EDIT: In theory booting off the CD ought to completely bypass Lilo or Grub, so they shouldn't be an issue.

[edited by - Doc on March 8, 2004 12:26:50 AM]

I think this might be a problem. When I put in a floppy containing the bootdisk image, I get the "Remove disks or other media. Press any key to restart" blurb. Would it be better to just kill the hard drive and then reinstall?

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