Re: booting from DVD?

[Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com>]

Miles Fidelman(mfidelman@meetinghouse.net) is reported to have said:
> 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?

I'm coming in late on the thread but..., I use udf for backups but I
don't recall that format being 'bootable'

If you have k3b installed you could try usig it to create a bootable
dvd.

W

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