booting cd-rw?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: booting cd-rw?
started by: libretto

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Posted by libretto on Dec. 14 2003,00:21

Is there a way to make a cd-rw bootable? As this would save me so many cdrs.

I have Ahead Nero software under Winblows and Eroaster, K3B under Mandrake.

Cheers in advance for any help.

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Posted by Pc_Madness on Dec. 14 2003,07:38

I use Easy CD Creator to burn the DSL ISO image to a CD-RW, and it boots fine. Make sure you close the session?

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Posted by sevengraff on Dec. 14 2003,08:08

I use nero to write to CD-RW's for DSL and all the million other distros I download. What I do is tell nero to erase the re-writable, then burn the ISO, and it works fine.
Execpt it seems to run a little bit slower on a RW. Maybe It's just my crappy lapptop

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Posted by libretto on Dec. 15 2003,01:11

Cheers both for your comments!

I'm now typing to you via my first DSL bootable CD-RW

Just need to get the printers going and if it works stick the latest DSL on my laptop!

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Posted by caulktel on Dec. 17 2003,17:19

I use Nero 5, and K3b to write cdrw's, and for the most part they work well. The only problem that I have had is, that the cdrw's that I am using, (TDK) sometimes wont boot in some of my older hardware, but regular cdr's will, and being as that is where I use DSL most of the time I end up burning the new ISO's on cdr's.

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Posted by John on Dec. 19 2003,06:52

I do all my testing on CD-RWs, they work fine with cdrecord.

In my case the command is:
cdrecord dev=0,0,0  blank=fast; cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=4 -dao -v damnsall-x.x.x.iso

Here's a nice howto:
< http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm >

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