Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[juergen.braukmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx (juergen.braukmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx)]

Filip wrote:
> 
> THANKS TO ALL,
> 
> I tried everything you gave me, it's working for burning the CD
> 
> The reply I got from xcdroast was :
> 
> 1. Use xcdroast 0.98 ( actually included in RH7 )
> 
> 2. rename the .iso to .raw and put the file into image-data-path of xcdroast
>    0.96ex . Then do a write.
> 
> The only thing now, is how to browse my CD because the only thing I see is the
> 7.0-i386-disk1.iso or raw file. ( 637 MB)
> 

In what case I guess you burned the *imagefile* as a file to the CD.
I was joking when I wrote about <shrudder> GUI's, but I guess the shell
would have saved you a CDR.

cdrecord -v dev=your_device speed=your_speed imagefile

> I can browse the iso image in my partition /web/redhat/....... by doing the
> following : mount -o loop -t iso 9660 <7.0-i386-disk1.iso > <mountpoint>
> 

yes. that works only foe a filesystem in a file.

> But the above statement doesn't work if I mount the cdrom with the CD where the
> iso image on to it.
> 

that would be 
mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/[cdromdevice] /mountpoint

> So, I'm stuck. I simply want to dowload an iso image from the web and make a
> bootable CD from it. Thanks for any futher help.

I still guess it's already bootable.

> 
> Filip.
> 

Juergen


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