On Sunday 03 July 2005 02:43, Jim Kern wrote:
Hi jim.
In the burning software you are using look for burning a .iso image
option. The debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso file is read to burn.
all the best
peter colton
> Yes I am burning the image as: debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso
> Thanks Peter,
>
> Yes I am burning the image as: debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso
>
> Do I need to unpack it first? If so, how? The system I am trying to boot
> from already has Redhat on it. From Redhat I can actually mount the cdrom
> drive and when I run the .iso file it dosent like the fact that it is a
> binary file.
>
> Jim
>
> peter colton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 02 July 2005 21:24, Jim Kern wrote:
> > This is my second attempt in a year to get Debian on my machine. Why is
> > it so dificult. I have downloaded the ISO image of the net install and
> > burned it to a CD. Is this CD supposed to be bootable? Anyway when I
> > insert the CD in an i386 based machine it looks at the CD and returns not
> > boot record found. I have tried to look at your site to find a simple
> > proceedure to get this on my machine. I almost seems as though you want
> > it to be hard so that people buy the disks. I hope not but I feel I am
> > helping you if I am honest about it. Anyway I hope you can point me in
> > the right direction.
> >
> > Jim
>
> hello jim
>
> Are you burning the cd image as a .iso file ? not a data file.
>
> all the best
>
> peter colton
>
> ps will knoppix boot from the cdrom drive if so you should be able
> to install debian sarge from a install cd .iso image
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