burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

[Danny MacMillan]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:35:43PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
>      On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:37:41 -0700 Danny MacMillan
> <flowers at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:13:56PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
> >>      On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:21:06 -0500 Parv <parv at pair.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >in message <200501030936.j039arAx022411 at mp.cs.niu.edu>,
> >> >wrote Scott Bennett thusly...
> >> >>
> >> >> I've downloaded the following ISO image files:
> >> >> 
> >> >> 	5.3-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso
> >> >> 	5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
> >> >> 	5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso
> >> >> 
> >> >> I've also tried burning the first file to CD-Rs using Windows
> >> >> XP Home's own facilities and using Sonic RecordNow! under said
> >> >> system, but did not get bootable CDs either way.
> >> >
> >> >First time i tried the software of same name unknown version (IBM
> >> >ThinkPad T42, Windows XP Professional), i selected "Data Disc"
> >> >and chose the ISO image.  Well, it did do its job: i got the ISO
> >> >image /file/ on the CD.
> >> >
> >> >After more poking around in the software interface, "Burn Image"
> >> >or some such option was revealed under the heading of "Data Disc"
> >> >or some such.  And, that too did its job: i got the mini install
> >> >ISO image on CD to boot with.
> >> >
> >>      Thanks for the suggestion.  I've now gone back and found the
> >> little green button in Sonic RecordNow! for making a bootable CD.
> >> I then tried it with each of the first two files noted above.  The
> >> CDs written via the green button do get a little farther than
> >> before.  In the earlier case, the machine barely glanced at the CD
> >> before deciding to boot from the hard drive after all.  The green
> >> button CDs, instead, run far enough to display a message in the
> >> upper left corner of the screen that says, "Missing operating
> >> system", and then hang.
> >
> >This is not intuitive, but you do not want to use the "make a
> >bootable CD" function of Sonic RecordNow! to make a bootable CD.
> 
>      On what basis is the above statement made if you haven't used
> Sonic RecordNow! ?  It certainly looks to me as though the green
> button is the *only* way to burn an image (not counting making an
> exact copy of

On the basis of your characterizing the little green button as being
"for making a bootable CD", and my understanding of that function in
alternative software.  In short:  I misunderstood.  I apologize for
the misdirection.

-- 
Danny