On 06/05/2017 11:35 PM, mike wrote:
You can certainly do the same thing starting with linux, but I don't know
the exact commands to do it.

dd from the command line will get the job done but there are several
Linux burner apps that make life easier. And safer. When running dd as
root you better know that the output device is.

rbowman writes:

On 06/05/2017 11:35 PM, mike wrote:
You can certainly do the same thing starting with linux, but I don't know
the exact commands to do it.

dd from the command line will get the job done but there are several
Linux burner apps that make life easier. And safer. When running dd
as root you better know that the output device is.

In K3B, under tools, select burn image.

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Dan Espen

On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 12:36:48 AM UTC-5, mike wrote:
Don't burn the extracted files. Burn the iso.

Find someone with a windows computer. Download the linux .iso.
Download and install ImgBurn. Run ImgBurn.
click on "Write image file to disc" and point it at the downloaded .iso.

Thank you for your further input, Mike, cjt, cl...@snyder, rbowman and bill.. I had success today.

From your comments here and chatter on the net in general, I figured I had not yet created a bootable disk. This was despite a lot of effort with my home desktop computer and freeware for burning DVDs. I also remembered some chatter on the net about free iso files for Windows XP Professional. Hm. So why not try one of the latter? Today I:


-- Went to my public library. I found Windows 7 is installed on old desktops with DVD drives.

-- Downloaded an iso file for Windows XP Professional from pcriver.com

-- Downloaded an iso file for Windows Mint xfce

-- Right clicked on the Windows XP Professional iso file. Some Windows 7 software came up for burning files onto a blank DVD.

-- I googled on the Windows 7 disc burning software. The signs were good I was going to get a bootable disk out of it.

-- I clicked on the "verify disc after burning" option. I reviewed all the fill-in-the-blanks to make sure the source file (namely, the iso file on the desktop) and destination (the blank DVD in the DVD drive) were correct. I went forward with the burning, and all seemed to go well.

-- I repeated this for the linux iso file. T

-- I took my two newly burned DVDs home to try them. I set the BIOS to boot from the DVD drive. Both DVDs went right into the installation software, with everything looking as it should.

-- I decided to continue with the Windows XP Professional Edition, since I already have a copy of 2006 MS Works and 2000 MS Word that work fine with Windows XP. My 2006 MS Works and MS Word installed just fine. The pirated Windows XP Professional copy works great.

-- Once the Windows XP Professional Edition was installed, I went to "Run" and ran winmsd.exe . No "Activation Status" line appeared. Hurrah (so far)! For my 2006 Windows XP Home Edition, running winmsd.exe shows the "days remaining" to activation, reminding me of all the nightmare it has been to try to workaround the activation.

-- If for some reason the pirated Windows XP Professional Edition fails, I am ready to switch to Linux again.

-- I was pretty frustrated yesterday. Today I feel like I have much more power over my home computer and its software. It's like the days back in grad school in the late 1980s and mid-1990s, using sofware that was much more command based. If I changed a line, I knew what to expect. De-bugging was a logical process. So I have one leg back in those good ol' days of doing my own 'coding' but feeling like I am not taking all these shots in the dark to make a program work.

Sorry for not calling everyone out by name. All: Thank you for the technical and moral support. Knowing something is possible is huge incentive to stick with trying to achieve it.

Elle

"Having a job is expensive. If you spend all your time working for someone else, you don't have any time to learn to do things yourself."
-- Charley Groden in the 2003 film, "Off the Map"

On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 6:21:40 PM UTC-5, Dan Espen wrote:
In K3B [freeware downloadable from the net], under tools, select burn image.

--
Dan Espen

Thanks Dan! With everyone indicating this should be a piece of cake, I stuck with it and had success. See my other post.