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Re: Howto write a debian CD



On Wed, 14 May 2003 13:41, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:29:39AM -0700, Joris Huizer wrote:
> > Is this a known problems with Debian CD images or
> > something ?
> > To me, it seems weird normal data CD's are no problem
> > and Debian installation CD's are so much harder to
> > burn correctly !
>
> They're standard ISO's.  Easy as all hell to burn.  Just make sure you
> burn them as a bootable CD image.  Check your software's documentation
> on how to do this, xcdroast makes it pretty obvious.
>

Bootable or otherwise has nothing to do with the burn process.

The iso has a boot record or not, depending what options were chosen when it 
was made.

See man mkisofs



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