Burning Bootable ISO Disk Images ( fedora Core 4 ) on Mac

I've not burned the fedora 4 cdroms on the mac. but I did burn the fedora 3 cdroms a while back. and they worked fine for me.

if you used disk utility to burn the iso image, it should have worked, because it's shouldn't case about whether the iso image is bootable. and since the sha1 digest matches, i'm wondering if there might not be something wrong with the way the iso was built. have you tried burning it on a linux box? or maybe loopback mounting the image, to see if the bootable image is on the disc?

sorry for having to suggest this, but are you sure that you're trying to boot from the correct disc? you might check the other, just in case they got mislabeled. on the off chance that you burned the wrong image file thinking that it was something else.

just a thought.

Andy

I had a similar problem trying to make ubuntu discs. After some searching around, the consensus was that "disk utility" is busted, and you need to use cdrecord, or some other gui based burner (forgot the name). Anyway, use fink to get cdrecord and from there it's fairly easy if a little different from linux. If I recall, "cdrecord -scanbus" will tell you what you actually need to type to get the info you need for your cdrecord command.

It worked for me on 10.4 for Ubuntu. I think the problem was with 10.3. FWIW I never got the fink package to work right.

Ok Bill -- you forced me to get off my lazy butt. 😉 After unpacking my powerbook and after rummaging through a stack of CDs for a blank one, I did a test (my stack of "burned but never labeled" discs is beginning to shrink since I finally got a thumbdrive -- at least I tossed half a dozen useless discs).

First thing, the command that replaces "scanbus" is "dev=help". It may or may not be worth a try -- it returns false info for me, telling me I should use "dev=IOCompactDiscServices" when in fact, it won't work unless I use "dev=IODVDServices" (I have the cd burner/dvd reader -- not the superdrive). After sorting that out, I used the following on a "damX small linux" ISO (I can't actually name this linux distro here -- replace X with "n"), took it over to my desktop and it is now happily booted into DSL.

cdrecord dev=IODVDServices speed=16 -data -eject dsl-1.5-syslinux.iso

Of course, one must be rootish to do this, either through sudo or as actual root. I'd throw in a "-v" for a progress bar. I set the speed to 16 because I wasn't sure what my combo drive will do and figured it would take more time to find out than to burn -- so I just picked a conservative number (probably not even needed anyway).

Hmmm, maybe I should find a sharpie and label that DSL disc. 😉

As an aside -- here I am on my DSL bootable cd -- a whopping 50 mb distro -- Firefox in X and this computer has never felt so fast. Definitely gonna find a sharpie now and use this for my rescue disc. I'm impressed.

Ok, it has been a few weeks since I tried, so maybe it is updated.

What is dam n small linux?

Ok, I need this. But which one? I am too tired to read the instructions...

Hey -- how come you get to say dam.?

http://www.damXsmalllinux.org/

And an ISO download link: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damXsmall/current/

(replace all "X" with "n" .... grrrrrr.)

I chose the the dsl-1.5-syslinux ISO and it was a live CD version. I didnt' have to do anything to run it -- in fact, as soon as I saw it was booting, I went to the dining room table and powerbook, and wrote my long post above. Then I came back to my desktop and fooled around with it.

Hi thepotter,

> Hey -- how come you get to say dam.?

Bill lives 40 miles Southwest of Cupertino; it's part of Apple's "Good Neighbor Policy". 🙂 Actually, if you view the source, "dam n", you'll see that Bill put empty HTML tags in the middle of the word; clever! Apple's censorship program strips out whitespace and punctuation before it checks for nasties, which is stupid. I've written sentences like,

If you use this notation in the Bourne shell, sh, it will work.

I can't imagine a circumstance in which something like this would actually be a naughty word. Thus, it never would have occurred to me that the censor wouldn't strip out HTML before checking because that's what the browser will do before displaying. That has to be the lamest censor that food stamps can buy.
--
Gary
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Don't let go of what you've got hold of, until you have
hold of something else.
-- First Rule of Wing Walking

"That has to be the lamest censor that food stamps can buy."

Dam n Hillarious!

But will it work with a url? .... http://www.dam nsmalllinux.org/

ascii code for "n"? nope -- caught in the censor net.

Hi,
I just want to add that Disk Utility (mainly used under 10.3.9 by now for me) has been able to burn many iso images for me, even DVDs without problems. And if I haven't tried the FedoraCore 4 since I gave up rpms for deb packages, I can assure it works well for this purpose.

Why is it said it sometimes suc ks ?

Michel