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Greetings -

I've seen a few postings related to this, but haven't been able to
glean the solution from what I've read, so at the risk of posting a
FAQ: I want to make a copy of my RH 7.1 install CD. The machine I have
RH installed on does NOT have a CD burner.

But, my Windoze box sitting next to it does. The Windoze machine has
Roxio Easy CD Creator Platinum 5.1, which is the most recent thing
they sell.

I tried doing a simple 'disk copy' with Roxio, and while it reported
no errors, the copy CD will not boot in my Linux box. I seem to recall
that RH uses a particular CD coding standard that older version of
Roxio (Adaptec) didn't support, but I'm not sure - after multiple
searches on the Redhat site, and the web in general, can't find the
solution...

Any suggestions? I'm sure this has been figured out - I simply want to
use my Windoze box with its CD burner to make a bootable copy of my
Redhat 7.1 install CD.

Thanks!

<from an old posting>

"I believe (correct me if I`m wrong) that Redhat makes their CD with
 "Rockridge extensions", but Easy CD Creator doesn`t have that option.
The options are ISO 9660 Levels 1 and 3, and then Joliet. I made the
CD with Joliet format to keep the long filenames, but the boot disk
didn`t  recognize the CD-ROM."

Quote:> Greetings -

> I've seen a few postings related to this, but haven't been able to
> glean the solution from what I've read, so at the risk of posting a
> FAQ: I want to make a copy of my RH 7.1 install CD. The machine I have
> RH installed on does NOT have a CD burner.

> But, my Windoze box sitting next to it does. The Windoze machine has
> Roxio Easy CD Creator Platinum 5.1, which is the most recent thing
> they sell.

> I tried doing a simple 'disk copy' with Roxio, and while it reported
> no errors, the copy CD will not boot in my Linux box.

I'm not familiar with the exact options available in your software or
what they do, but what you need is an option that will do a low-level
byte copy of the CD, not a high-level file-by-file copy. Most CD-R
packages do include an option to do this, and I'd rather expect
something called "disk copy" might do it, but apparently not in this
case....

If you've got a network link between the two systems, you could do this
in Linux, after putting the CD-ROM in the drive:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=redhat71.iso

This should create a low-level image file (aka an "ISO file") of the
CD-ROM. Move that to the Windows box. You should be able to burn that
image to CD-R using an option called "burn CD-R from image file," "use
ISO file," or something similar. Depending upon your file associations
and names, double-clicking a file that ends in .iso may also launch the
CD-R package with the appropriate options. You can also check this Web
site:

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/CD_burning_howto.php3

This site has information on how to burn a bootable CD-R from an image
file, but little or nothing on creating an image file from a CD-ROM.
(The dd command I gave will do the latter under Linux, though.)

Finally, it's possible that what you've got now will work, but you'll
need to boot from a floppy disk. Check your CD-R for a subdirectory with
floppy disk images, and create a boot floppy following the instructions
there. Boot with that and see if you can install. This might or might
not work; I've not checked to see what the latest RH does in terms of
using Joliet. It might be easier than creating another CD-R, though.

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