 | Junior Member with 13 posts. | | | | How to burn my Linux ISO? Okay so I downloaded Linux and I want to install it on my laptop. I set my laptop to boot from a cd drive but it still won't work. Now I have the Linux installer as an ISO file. One person told me it needs to be converted to a BOOTABLe ISO file but i can't find ANY sort of information about this process online. My question is this; do I need to make this ISO a BOOTABLE ISO and if so how do I do this? If not then can I just burn this ISO with Nero 7? Thanks for your help. | | Distinguished Member with 2,835 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Newcastle Experience: A Linux user gone nuts on multi-boot | | Just use Nero and burn it as an bootable image. | | Distinguished Member with 3,364 posts. | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: West Texas Experience: n00b | | | | | Junior Member with 13 posts. | | | | I used nero and I tried alcohol 120% and my laptop wouldnt boot from either of them. | | Distinguished Member with 3,364 posts. | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: West Texas Experience: n00b | | If the laptop is set to boot from the CD first and nothing happened then you got a bad burn/DL/or did it wrong. Try, try again... | | Junior Member with 13 posts. | | | | I did. I have three different operating systems as ISOs and I tried burning all three of them multiple times. I even tried mounting the images and nothing happened still. | | Distinguished Member with 12,763 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Experience: A little of this...a little of that | | If you have Nero installed, you just double-click on the ISO file, and Nero should open and burn the file appropriately. Are you simply burning the ISO file to a disk as data? If so, it's not going to work. | | Senior Member with 660 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: US and A Experience: Ninja | | Did you try booting other machines with these disks? It could be the CD drive in the original machine.
If you have a USB CD or DVD drive, try that. | | Distinguished Member with 14,984 posts. | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: -71.45091, 42.27841 | | When you download an ISO file, look for a corresponding md5sum file (if available) and after you download the ISO file, run the md5sum command against it:
$ md5sum filename.iso
If the md5sum does not match that posted on the download website, then your download is corrupt and you need to try again until you get a good download.
That done and verified, here's how to use Linux commands to burn the image:
1) First, always run the following command to ascertain the SCSI bus ID for your CD or DVD device, since on the next boot the device may be mapped differently (this step will avoid the problem of addressing the wrong device address):
$ sudo cdrecord -scanbus
Your CD or DVD device might have a SCSI address of: 0,1,0 or 2,1,0 or something like that as output
2) Next, since you have already verified the ISO image file (using md5sum), for the purpose of this example, let's assume your device was 2,1,0, then put a blank CD+RW disc or reuseable DVD into your CD drive and issue the following command:
If there is data on the CD - you need to blank it out before burning it again (i.e. CD+RW disc):
$ sudo cdrecord -eject -v speed=8 blank=fast dev=ATAPI:2,1,0
If the CD or DVD is blank already, you can skip to the following command:
$ sudo cdrecord -eject -v speed=8 dev=ATAPI:2,1,0 ./imagefile.iso
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