Subject: Re: Booting from the Install CD Problem
From: Peter J Muhlberger (peterm+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sun May 28 2000 - 16:10:33 MDT
>Hi folks: Well, I was so excited about getting started w/ YDL that I
>>thought I'd save some time by downloading the install CD images & burning
>>them myself. Although everything seems to have gone well, but when I tried
>>to boot from the CD, MacOS9 boots instead. I'm going to go ahead & order
>>the CDs from YDL, but now I'm curious as to what could have gone wrong.
>
>>The steps I followed were: downloading ydl-cs1.2-install.iso from a server
>>using Fetch set to binary download. Mounting the image using DiskCopy....
>
>Right here is where you went wrong. There is no need to mount the
>image, just fire up toast (I assume you are using Toast?), select
>disk image and then drag your disk image file onto toast (or hit the
>data button and select the image file that way). Then burn the cd.
>This method has worked for me for several iso images.
>
>I would redownload the images and try reburning them, if you haven't
>already ordered the cds from yellowdog...
>
>Cheers,
>Steve
In what format do you save the file (ISO-9660?)? What do you name the
disk, or does that matter? And, what do you name the disk image? I did
try saving it as ISO-9660, on a disk named "untitled", with a file name
of ydl-cs1.2-install.iso It doesn't boot....
Thanks! Peter
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