Thanks! Will see if time permits me to try this tomorrow,
Sat afternoon ... otherwise Monday.
doc
> the iso file is an image of an iso9660 file system, which is the
> standard we use for a CD. You have to convert the image file to a CD,
> not just copy it over. I have always used cdrecord to do it with my 4x
> speed ide CD writer.
>
> cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0 thecdimage.iso
>
> You can see what device your burner is by the cdrecord -scanbus command,
> and if you don't have any scsi devices other than your cd writer (which
> is probably an ide version), then the device will most likely be 0,0,0.
> I only put two because I'm lazy and I don't have more than one scsi bus
> (and that one is emulated by ide-scsi).
>
> after you have the images transferred to CD, you either create boot
> disks from Windows or Linux and then install by booting off of those
> boot floppies, or you boot off of the CD by adjusting your BIOS to boot
> from CD.
>
> scott
>
>
> doc wrote:
>
> >Sure appreciate the heads-up on this!
> >
> >I have decided that while I try to get Debian to load on my
> >newly assembled PC and then configure KDE2, etc., I'd
> >set my wife's PC to dual-boot Mandrake 8.2 and move
> >her off off Win98se.
> >
> >The instructions from the Mandrake download site for NERO
> >are a little old -- so I used the Wizard -- hope that is OK!
> >
> >QUESTION: I have the three 8.2 ISO's on CD, now what?
> >
>
>
>
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