Burning ISO Images

[Rootstonian]

It's a DVD and I just tried to boot in on my Dell 2400...no joy.


Burning it now with PowerISO; seems like some decent software. I'll buy it if it does the trick

[Rootstonian]

That worked, but the server requires a hardwire and that's in the other room (not in my "Command Central").

Oh well, time to have Time Warner come out and rewire anyways.

Command Central is the boy's old bedroom, but he's out and married and I have taken it over. Her PC and router and desk are out in, for lack of a better description, the family room. We'll be remodeling that soon anyways, so I guess I'll have to pay for the rewire job. 1 story ranch, crawl space only so Time Warner will earn their money!

They pretty much just have to run the coax down to this room and then take a ethernet back (just in case we want a hard wire connection back in the family room).

[Cmptr-Gy-Dv]

you can still get to it over the internet,

[quickoldcar]

About your burning a bootable dvd.

Get poweriso

Open the server iso with poweriso.

Now look at the bottom if it says it's bootable or not

If it is just click the burn button up top and select you dvd drive.

Burn slooooooow as you can.

Best advice I can give.

[Rootstonian]

I did get the DVD to be bootable with PowerISO, nice software

The way my house is setup, I'm not ready to install this the way I want it to run.

Just need to spend a few bucks getting the house rewired and I'll be good to go.

Thanks again for all your help...this IS the best tech forum on the Internet!

[Network67]

I'm not sure If this is the question your asking, but you can use Alcohol 120% to create virtual DVD drives and then mount your image to access the disk.

[Keymaker]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Network67

I'm not sure If this is the question your asking, but you can use Alcohol 120% to create virtual DVD drives and then mount your image to access the disk.

That or Daemon tools

Still don't understand how emulating a CD/DVD disk drives facilitates an install when all you need to do is burn the .ISO?


Virtualpc? Would this help too?

[Keymaker]

Quote:

Originally Posted by quickoldcar

About your burning a bootable dvd.

Burn slooooooow as you can.

I have burned disk in 10-15 min. no problems.

[extitude]

I have had this problem.No explaination but here's what I did.
I chose 'bootable data disc' on the burner proggie.I put a floppy in that was blank and formatted.This made my discs bootable.
Does that help or was that so obvious that i should be heckled and have gum thrown in my hair from someone sitting in the back of the bus?

[quickoldcar]

If you want to make an iso bootable that isn't.

Best bet is Nlite program found here.

http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

I downloaded Boot files and add then to my iso manually with poweriso and then save. Basically it's the same stuff found on the floppies and adds this at beginning of the cdrom.

I uploaded the same boot files I use and they do work well.

http://www.zshare.net/download/boot-rar-pxh.html