The ISO for Slack Linux is not bootable from a home burned CD. Anyone know how to make
the CD bootable? I don't have a floppy drive on the laptop I bought and no cash to buy the disk
set from Slackware. Any help is much appreciated.




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sleep@nite.org wrote:

> The ISO for Slack Linux is not bootable from a home burned CD. Anyone
> know how to make the CD bootable? I don't have a floppy drive on the
> laptop I bought and no cash to buy the disk set from Slackware. Any help
> is much appreciated.

1) verify you got the iso correctly. use md5sum to check
2) burn it correctly [meaning, burn it as iso or image, not just copy over
the iso to the cd]
3) try different media, try booting a different computer with that cd,
verify that the cd has even slackware data on it.

Dominik L.. Borkowski wrote:

> sleep@nite.org wrote:
>
>> The ISO for Slack Linux is not bootable from a home burned CD. Anyone
>> know how to make the CD bootable? I don't have a floppy drive on the
>> laptop I bought and no cash to buy the disk set from Slackware. Any help
>> is much appreciated.
>
> 1) verify you got the iso correctly. use md5sum to check
> 2) burn it correctly [meaning, burn it as iso or image, not just copy over
> the iso to the cd]
> 3) try different media, try booting a different computer with that cd,
> verify that the cd has even slackware data on it.

4. Some drives (especially older ones) will not properly read a CD-R or
CD-RW no matter what you do. I've never managed to discover precisely why.

sleep@nite.org wrote:

> The ISO for Slack Linux is not bootable from a home burned CD.

What did you do wrong? Did you burn it to a CD-R and then make sure the CD
was "closed"? Did you burn it at the slowest possible speed, to make sure
it's compatible with as many CD readers as possible? Did you use a CD-RW
and forget to "close" it?

> Anyone
> know how to make the CD bootable?

It should already be.

> I don't have a floppy drive on the
> laptop I bought and no cash to buy the disk set from Slackware. Any help
> is much appreciated.
>
>
>
>
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NeoSadist <neosad1st@charter.net> wrote:
> sleep@nite.org wrote:

> > The ISO for Slack Linux is not bootable from a home burned CD.

> What did you do wrong? Did you burn it to a CD-R and then make sure the CD
> was "closed"? Did you burn it at the slowest possible speed, to make sure
> it's compatible with as many CD readers as possible? Did you use a CD-RW
> and forget to "close" it?

> > Anyone
> > know how to make the CD bootable?

> It should already be.

> > I don't have a floppy drive on the
> > laptop I bought and no cash to buy the disk set from Slackware. Any help
> > is much appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
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Keith Matthews wrote:

> 4. Some drives (especially older ones) will not properly read a CD-R or
> CD-RW no matter what you do. I've never managed to discover precisely
> why.

yep, in my experience especially cdrws. thanks for reminding me.

<sleep@nite.org> wrote in message news:<4130b741_1@corp.newsgroups.com>...
> The ISO for Slack Linux is not bootable from a home burned CD. Anyone know how to make
> the CD bootable? I don't have a floppy drive on the laptop I bought and no cash to buy the disk
> set from Slackware. Any help is much appreciated.
>
RTFM on whatever CD burner software you're using, and find out how to burn a
bootable CD. Then just write the image, as others have said.

Good Luck!
Rich

sleep@nite.org wrote:
> The ISO for Slack Linux is not bootable from a home burned CD. Anyone know how to make
> the CD bootable? I don't have a floppy drive on the laptop I bought and no cash to buy the disk
> set from Slackware. Any help is much appreciated.

I have found that some of the older slower CD drives would act this way. The
only resort you might have is to go and buy a CD set from Slackware.

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Leo (Bing) Whiteway in Canada:
A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
< running Slackware 10 >

I got my copy of slack 10 from a linux magazine cover cd, they supplied
it as 2 iso files, using k3b on suse 9.1 I made cd's from each of the
iso files, the first cd boots fine, with this its a case of just right
clicking on the file and then selecting make cd with k3b (or something
along that line) k3b then loads, runs the checksum routine, then hit
start and burn your cd.

1.Make sure you actually make a cd and not just copy the iso file on to
a cdr which I did first time, (doh)
2. make sure you set your bios to boot from cdrom first.

If that fails, and the suggestions from other users on the newsgroup try
contacting your local linux user group and ask if anyone has a copy, if
you have a few cdr's handy then people will usually copy stuff for you.

Hope this helps.

sleep@nite.org wrote:

> The ISO for Slack Linux is not bootable from a home burned CD. Anyone know how to make
> the CD bootable? I don't have a floppy drive on the laptop I bought and no cash to buy the disk
> set from Slackware. Any help is much appreciated.
>
>
>
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