CD not booting
11 have a copy of Mandrake 7, not in an iso format but laid out in directory/file format. I have copied this, complete, onto a CD. The CD is readable in Windows, but it vvon’t act as a bootable Linux disk and, after creating and booting a cdrom.img boot floppy, the install program telis me the CD isn’t a Mandrake disk either!
Charlie, via email
S You’ll need to burn the CD vvith the J ‘RockRidge’ extension, rather than the I Joliet extension vvhich Windows uses, so Linux can correctly read the long file names vvithout needing any additional modules. As far as making a bootable CD goes, you need to burn the image file, vvhich you vvould normally vvrite to a floppy disk, to the CD, and the exact method depends on your CD creation softvvare.
İt’s vvorth bearing in mind that Mandrake 7.0 is now rather old and you might prefer to use Mandrake 7.2 or buy a cheap CD from Linux Emporium ( www.linux-emporium.co.uk)
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