Re: booting from DVD?

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

steve wrote:
> ill assume you are using gnome, all I do is right click on the iso file,
> then choose write to disc.  has always worked fine for me.
>   
yup
> did you burn the dvd on the pc your trying to boot from, and is the file
> actually an .iso ?
>
>   
yes, and looks like it - at least it mounts and the fstab lists it as 
udf, iso9660 (exactly the same way a bootable CD looks)
> does the dvd boot on another computer?
>
>   
good question - my other main machine is a PowerPC Mac, so that's no 
help; just tried it on the kids' Windows box - same symptom - seems to 
try to read the DVD, then boots from the hard drive (into Windows)

I guess I must be missing something about making the DVDs bootable

Thoughts?

Miles