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[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Ray wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 March 2007 5:57 pm, Jim Priovolos wrote:
>> Hi, I've downloaded the 6.2 files. When I burned a CD with the boot file it
>> didn't make my laptop boot off it after powering up with it in the CD
>> drive.
>>
>> The *disk1 file burnt to a CD gave the same results.
>>
>> I tried the *disk1 file using ftp through a browser and also command line
>> ftp set to binary.
>>
>> I checked the boot order and CD is first. If I put a Windows boot CD in
>> there it will boot off of it.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> I've got a Compaq Presario 2500 laptop with XP on it now.
> Hi Jim,
> the first question is how did you burn the *disk1 file? You have to burn it as
> a disk image, not just a data cd. when you put the *disk one into your
> machine when windows is running, do you see just one file on it, or many? If
> you are using windows to burn the cd, (windows is good for something ;)    )
> you'll probably have to use a separate burning program like nero and choose
> disk image. (I'm just getting started here myself, so if your burning under
> something besides windows, ask here again for a how to)
> Ray
>
>>
>> Thanks for the help in advance,
>> Jim P.

Ray,
     You don't even need to do that in some cases. If you run XP (like most people do), there's always ISO Recorder, a free util for burning ISOs (google it for more info).
-Garrett