Burning Fedora on CDs

[reddwarf2956]

I have downloaded Fedora, but it has been a while since I have burned CDs. What Is the way to make the CD with yarrow-i386-disc1.iso on it be bootable? I am using xcdroast 0.98alpha test on RH 8.0.

I know that that a boot image is needed, but which: Floopy or Harddisk? What is the name of the boot image that is needed and where can I get it? What is the procedure to make it work?

John

[genci]

You need to burn the .iso's as an image and not as a file. You can tell this was burnt correctly by viewing the contents of the CD - you should see several folders and files rather than a single file with an extension of .iso. This image CD is automatically bootable if your BIOS boot order is set up to boot from the CD drive before the hard drive.

Have you only got disk 1? Not sure how far you will get with out having the other CD's as well.

Sorry, I can't tell you how to burn as an image using xcdroast as I don't have that program, but have a look around the options for this. Otherwise hopefully someone else can help here. :)

[Bana]

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCDBurn.html
Tada!

I have found that the best way to install is to only burn the first CD and then when you get to the install prompt just type linux askmethod and then you can point to where on your harddrive you have the other two isos and the install works fine that way (plus that's two CDS burned you have saved).

[reddwarf2956]

genci,

I have not burned any CD yet. I will burn the image when I get the info strait on the boot image.

Bana,

I found this at a link to the link.

To make a CD bootable, you first need a bootable image, for example, from a bootdisk. To get this, put a bootdisk of your favorite operating system into the floppy drive fd0 and type dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/bootdisk.img. The computer will save a file named bootdisk.img. It must be located in a folder that you added to your CD (in this example, you must have the folder /tmp added). After that, go to Create CD -> master tracks -> boot options in X-CD-Roast.

But this is about making a floppy bootable right? I think the bootdisk.img is the image that I want but how to make it do this correctly? Where is it with the download files? Or, is it part of the image of yarrow-i386-disc1.iso? If it is, how do I set this up to burn correctly?

[tchung]

Originally posted by reddwarf2956
I have downloaded Fedora, but it has been a while since I have burned CDs. What Is the way to make the CD with yarrow-i386-disc1.iso on it be bootable? I am using xcdroast 0.98alpha test on RH 8.0.

I know that that a boot image is needed, but which: Floopy or Harddisk? What is the name of the boot image that is needed and where can I get it? What is the procedure to make it work?

John

Hello,

I wrote a simple script to burn Fedora Core 1 Binary ISO Images to CD-R.

http://fedoranews.org/tchung/scripts/burn-iso

I hope it's useful to you.

Thomas

[Bana]

All of the boot images are in here: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/images/
Cool script Thomas!

[reddwarf2956]

Thanks for the link (Bana) and script (Thomas). These are related but not what I was wanting. I hope to make the CD be a "Out of the box CD." Meaning that if the computer does not have any OS installed, only the CD set is needed to install Fedora. As it stands, I must have a floppy disk to install the CDs.

I tried to burn the floppy image and i386-disk1 image, but the CD is still not bootable. I don't know why?? I also tried to burn without the floppy image but with the i386-disk1 image alone. This of course did not work. I was looking in the General Forum and notice a Q. on Live CDs, I wonder if this is what I am really wanting? It would be strange to me because I think of Linux as progressive, yet this would mean that Win. has one thing going for it. Able to boot from the install disk. Then again maybe I am doing something wrong. It just does not make simple sence on why it fails to make boot disk correctly.

[tchung]

Originally posted by reddwarf2956
Thanks for the link (Bana) and script (Thomas). These are related but not what I was wanting. I hope to make the CD be a "Out of the box CD." Meaning that if the computer does not have any OS installed, only the CD set is needed to install Fedora. As it stands, I must have a floppy disk to install the CDs.

I tried to burn the floppy image and i386-disk1 image, but the CD is still not bootable. I don't know why?? I also tried to burn without the floppy image but with the i386-disk1 image alone. This of course did not work. I was looking in the General Forum and notice a Q. on Live CDs, I wonder if this is what I am really wanting? It would be strange to me because I think of Linux as progressive, yet this would mean that Win. has one thing going for it. Able to boot from the install disk. Then again maybe I am doing something wrong. It just does not make simple sence on why it fails to make boot disk correctly.

Hello,

Perhaps, you don't understand the concept of buring ISO Images to CD-R. In that case, please read "Understanding What You Are Doing" at http://fedora.redhat.com/download/

My script is based on "cdrecord" which allows you to burn ISO images to CD-R directly therefore you'll have bootable CD as hundreds of people have done.

As far as booting into CD-ROM, please check "Boot Sequence" in your BIOS setting. If this is not set to boot from CD-ROM first, it won't matter which Linux distribution - Live CD or not - you won't be able to install Linux from CD-ROM.

If all fails, please contact me privately and I will send you Fedora Core 1 on CD-ROM.

Thomas

[reddwarf2956]

OK, There is a problem that I did not think of the CDs or CD writer.

Thanks to Bana's burn one install the others from harddisk images it went smooth. It still looks like I will have to burn the CDs for Package Management however. I think this is not good that I have to burn the CD when the file can be read from the harddisk.

Back to the problem. For some reason, I can not read the CDs on the Ppro which was made on my PIII. I tried to install on the PIII and after working on some small problems am back here. (The probem was with pppoe setup.) Some of my desktop configurations were lost, including Mozilla. I ended up adding all of the packages as the install progressed. So now I need to know how to remove the ones I don't need.

Something I did noticed, which I think is a bug (Tell me if I am wrong.) is when I tried to remove files using the Package Management tool to Add or Remove Packages. It would not let me, for example News Server. Once entering the program, the user is required to include the News Server before exiting with other changes. I don't have any need for Chineese so I want to remove the Chineese dictionary too. How to do that?

Fedora Core Test Page is a change from the RH one. I will need some help to male a good firewall and network setup which I know is messed-up (by me).

Fedora works, I see. But Now, I need to move over to hardware to ask on the CD-RW as to get the other computer installed. But this leads to a new install question.

Another Fedora burning CD question: How to make a Fedora install disk which makes the PPro machine act as a file server alone without any other componets being asked for except networking and hardware that I have like a Jaz drive. I want to use the Jaz as a way to back things up 1G at a time on this old machine and move the Fedora images to the harddisk as to be out of the way.

[Prometheus]

If youre not root, you need to be root to remove packages, at least i do on my machine.

[reddwarf2956]

Prometheus,

Yes, all ready doing that. The question from this newbie is which packages HAVE to be there and which can get by without having them. I don't have but about 1G not the Ppro plus the 1G Jaz so it is tight.

[reddwarf2956]

Closed as the new questions are now seperate threads.