On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:38:37 GMT, "Laurie Forbes"
wrote:


"Gunner" wrote in message
news
Ive been playing around with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, via their
Live CD.

**** me running but its good.

I simply stuck in the live cd which I downloaded the ISO file from
www.ubuntu.org, and rebooted my old utility box. A 700 meg P3 (coppermine)
box with a couple hds and 256meg memory and a small 15" HP monitor.


Would appreciate it if someone could tell me why my computer (an older clone
with Asus A7V mother board) will not boot from an ISO CD file?? I've tried
several Linux OSs including Knoppix - it appears to read the CD but then
ignores it and goes on to boot Windows from the hard drive. BTW, I can boot
a DOS CD with no problems. If I configure the BIOS to boot from the CD
only, all I get with an ISO CD file is an Invalid System Disk message or
somesuch.

I suspect this might have something to do with the BIOS which may not
recognize ISO files (??).

Any help welcomed .........

Laurie Forbes


NOTHING will boot from an ISO file. It must be written to CD in the
proper format. Think of an ISO file as a big assed zip file (not
true.but holds for the analogy)

you load a disk burning program, and have it convert the ISO file to a
bootable disk. Or copy the ISO file to your hard drive and burn from
it.

ISO files have no readily machine recognizable boot structure..so it
has to be "unzipped" into the proper directories, boot files and so
forth.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner