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Re: Creating boot CD



On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:25:46AM +0000, Paul Thompson wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I trying to install Debian LINUX for the first time. I have successfully 
>downloaded the netinst iso image from 
>http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r1/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r1a-i386-netinst.iso 
>and burnt it onto a CD using CDBurnerXP3 on a Windows computer that I have. 
>This successfully burns the iso onto the CD and I can see all the files on 
>the CD.
>
>The next stage is to make the CD bootable. How do I do that? CDBurnerXP3 
>asks for a boot image to be specified. What file do I specify?
>
>I've tried hunting around the various debian web sites for an answer to 
>this really basic question, but have failed to find one. Is there a very 
>basic manual anywhere that describes all these steps for a new user (who is 
>familiar with LINUX, but not Debian)?

The CD image is already bootable; simply burning the image straight to
a blank CD should do all that you need.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone

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