Erick Calder writes:
you see if I boot from the disc I burnt from the ISO (which is
screwed) then the installer will attempt to install the files it
knows to be in disc 1 from the CD, even though I'm doing a network
install - which means that even if I have the right filenames on the
ftp site, it won't read them because it prefers to read from the CD
and thus fails.
I believe you can use the Apple disk utility to burn an ISO (aka disk
image) without extracting it all. It should burn a bit-for-bit copy
without interpreting the contents, preserving the filenames.
In any case, you can burn a rescue CD instead of disc 1. That is what I
did for my network installs, since I wanted to download the minimum ISO
possible.
-bri