confused when burning the iso disc...

[Michael Wright]

I've very confused when it comes to burning dvd's and software. really need help here ? I have extract the file using winrar:

The files i have is Fedora  Images isolinux whats the software to use to burn the disc with ? and what file do i bring in when burning

[Michael Wright]

so i just burn the image file then.
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[Michael Wright]

i'm using widows xp
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From: "Jeff Vian" 
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Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 3:52 PM
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> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 14:34 +1000, Michael Wright wrote:
> > I've very confused when it comes to burning dvd's and software. really
> > need help here ? I have extract the file using winrar:
> >
> > The files i have is Fedora  Images isolinux whats the software to use
> > to burn the disc with ? and what file do i bring in when burning
>
> If you downloaded the iso image you should not extract it in any manner.
>
> How you burn it depends on what OS and burning software you are using,
> but for example, with k3b on Linux you simply select tools -> burn cd
> image and then pick the iso image file to burn to disk.   The iso image
> is just that, an image of the CD. Similar if you have the dvd image.
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[Sam Varshavchik]

Michael Wright writes:
> I've very confused when it comes to burning dvd's and software. really 
> need help here ? I have extract the file using winrar:

Then you did something wrong.  Nothing needs to be extracted with winrar, or 
anything else, to burn Fedora onto a DVD.  You need to burn the single *.iso 
image file itself, directly.
> The files i have is Fedora  Images isolinux whats the software to use to 
> burn the disc with ? and what file do i bring in when burning

All traditional CD/DVD-burning software should have an option, or a setting, 
to burn an "iso image", or a "raw file".  It differs from software to 
software, but a likely-named setting/option should be buried somewhere in 
your CD-burning software's option.

The file that you need is the single, large <name>.iso file.  For FC4 DVD 
image, for example, it's the 2.7 gigabyte-long FC4-i386-DVD.iso file.  T

[Kam Leo]

On 12/29/05, Michael Wright  wrote:
> I've very confused when it comes to burning dvd's and software. really need
> help here ? I have extract the file using winrar:
>
> The files i have is Fedora  Images isolinux whats the software to use to
> burn the disc with ? and what file do i bring in when burning

Check here: http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/install.html .

Use the software that came with your CD/DVD burner.  If you are still
confused come on back.

[Florin Andrei]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 14:34 +1000, Michael Wright wrote:
> I've very confused when it comes to burning dvd's and software. really
> need help here ? I have extract the file using winrar:

Don't extract anything, just download the ISO file and burn it.
> The files i have is Fedora  Images isolinux whats the software to use
> to burn the disc with ? and what file do i bring in when burning

HOWTO burn the DVD installer image on Fedora Core 4 (maybe also FC3):

Download the FC4-i386-DVD.iso image file. Download the SHA1SUM file in
the same directory, then verify the checksum:

sha1sum -c SHA1SUM

You may get some errors, but as long as FC4-i386-DVD.iso is reported Ok
then all is good.

Run "growisofs" as root to see if it's installed.
If it's not, then install it like this:

yum install dvd+rw-tools

Now figure out which dev file represents your DVD burner. On my system
it's /dev/dvdwriter. On your system it might be different,
e.g. /dev/hdc, /dev/dvd, whatever.
Do a "ls -l /dev/dvd*" or "ls -l /dev/cd*" to see if your system has any
files like that. You'll figure out which one is the DVD writer
eventually.

Now plug a blank DVD into the writer then burn the ISO. Run this command
as root in the directory where you keep the ISO image:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvdwriter=FC4-i386-DVD.iso

Replace /dev/dvdwriter with something else if your system is different
than mine.

If the burning speed is not optimal and it messes the disk, try again
adding this option: -speed=N (where N is a small value such as 1 or 2,
depending on your media). Or use higher N values to accelerate the
burning, but make sure that both the writer and the disk support it.

That's it.

[Florin Andrei]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 14:55 +1000, Michael Wright wrote:
> so i just burn the image file then.

But make sure that you burn it in such a way that the resulting disk
does not have just one big file on it (the ISO image file), but a
multitude of files and directories (the _content_ of the ISO image).
I.e., burn it as an image file, not as a regular file. All DVD burning
applications should understand the difference, dig into the options.

This is as detailed an explanation as I can imagine.

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 14:34 +1000, Michael Wright wrote:
> I've very confused when it comes to burning dvd's and software. really
> need help here ? I have extract the file using winrar:
>
> The files i have is Fedora  Images isolinux whats the software to use
> to burn the disc with ? and what file do i bring in when burning

If you downloaded the iso image you should not extract it in any manner.

How you burn it depends on what OS and burning software you are using,
but for example, with k3b on Linux you simply select tools -> burn cd
image and then pick the iso image file to burn to disk.   The iso image
is just that, an image of the CD. Similar if you have the dvd image.
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[Robert Spangler]

On Friday 30 December 2005 04:09, Michael Wright wrote:
> i'm using widows xp

Simple.  (I have Nero Express 6 here)

Start Nero Express 6

Click Disc Image or Saved Project

Browse over to the directory you save the ISO image

In the 'File Type' select 'Image File (*.nrg, *.iso, *.cue)

Double click the ISO file.  (new window will open)

Select your burner drive and click 'Next'.

ISO image will then be correctly burned to the disc.