[CLUE-Tech] CD burning

[Mike Miller]

I've had a few failed downloads of knoppix. You may want to get it
again. Further, it needs a 700mb cd-r to write to...keep trying, it's a
worthy exercise.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us 
> [mailto:clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us] On Behalf Of Jed S. Baer
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:41 AM
> To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
> Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] CD burning
> 
> 
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:53:54 -0700
> David Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net> wrote:
> 
> A tangent here.
> 
> I just dl'd Knoppix using a friend's machine (Cable modem -- woohoo).
> 
> I followed the instruction here 
> http://download.linuxtag.org/knoppix/docs/HOWT> O-burn/ for 
> burning using Nero. The CD isn't bootable, at 
> least on that machine. So, I made the bootable floppy using 
> rawrite2 (as described in the HTML docs on the ISO), and it 
> booted, but wouldn't load the OS from the CD.
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm home now (and I forgot to bring the 
> platter with me), so I can't test it here.
> 
> But, in googling for answers (sorta like bowling for 
> dollars), I came across some variant of the instructions. 
> Some say to use "raw" mode, others say to use a 2048 
> blocksize. Well, when I enable raw in Nero, the blocksize 
> selector goes disables.
> 
> So, the question is, how have CLUEbies succesfully burned a 
> bootable CD using the ISO?
> 
> I guess I could just make an ISO containing the file (i.e as 
> "content" of the filesystem), and mess with it at home, but I 
> hate to waste CD-R platters, and my CDRW platters are only 650MB.
> 
> jed
> -- 
> I wouldn't even think about bribing a rottweiler with a steak 
> that didn't weigh more than I do. -- Jason Earl 
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