On Saturday 02 December 2006 22:47, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
David Boles wrote:
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> Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
>> I don't believe its because of the hardware (even though the laptop
>> itself is almost four years old). Has anyone been able to successfully
>> burn bootable Fedora Core 6 iso images to DVD disks? May it have
>> something to do with the boot loader? Any help is appreciated.
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> Can you 'look at' (open) the DVD? Does it show one large file named
> <something>.iso or directories with files?
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> In other words did you copy the ISO to the DVD? Or did you burn an ISO
> image to the DVD? You should have done the second one and you should see
> directories and files.
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> David
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Hello David,
Yes, I was able to successfully burn the iso image to the DVD disk
and I do see the files and directories. By the way, I took this same
disk and put it on a Dell Laptop of a friend of mine and it was able to
boot the DVD successfully. So I think that it may be something on my
laptop - perhaps the bios (it was previously set to boot from the
CD-ROM). Perhaps it is the bios - but I don't know what it is for
sure. When I put it in my DVD drive, it doesn't not boot to the DVD but
instead goes to a normal boot up. This laptop is about four years old
and originally had a combo drive (CD/DVD-ROM).
Jeffrey, the colour of the burned disks is not important - it's just the brand
of media's choice. What may be important, though, is that it is a DVD+R.
Many older drives can read one type, + or -, but not the other. Have you
tried burning it to a -R?
(I have to admit that I didn't think of that when I had the problem with my
old laptop.)
I'm sure many people have successfully burned the iso to dvd. I certainly
have.
Anne