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Lord Vetinari
Flightless Bird
"Gene E. Bloch" <letters@someplace.invalid> wrote in message
news:hinqsv$mtj$1@news.albasani.net...
> On 1/14/10, Lord Vetinari posted:
>> "Gene E. Bloch" <letters@someplace.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:hilkp1$9ek$1@news.albasani.net...
>>> On 1/11/10, aaaaa posted:
>>>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 1934 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
>>>> <letters@someplace.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Find, download, and install CDBurnerXP. It's free, and it easily makes
>>>>> ISO files and easily burns them to CDs or DVDs.
>>>
>>>
>>>> I tried it twice. Both created CDs (XP installation disk(\) were
>>>> created, but were not bootable. When I read the web instructions, it
>>>> appears that I would need a 'boot image' to make such CDs bootable,
>>>> which I do not have.
>>>
>>>> Thanks anyway
>>>
>>> Were you careful to choose the option "Burn ISO image"? If you burned
>>> the ISO to the disc as a *data* disc, it won't be bootable. It won't be
>>> much of anything...
>
>> Heh...a couple of times, I accidentally burned to a DVD, when it needed
>> to be a CD, and vice versa. Took a couple of minutes to figure out what
>> I'd done wrong.
>
> Interesting. I had assumed that doing that would just waste a few GB of
> unused track and a few pennies.
>
> Meaning that say 100 MB is about 1/7 of a CD and 1/44 of a DVD, but I
> thought either one would boot the same.
>
> Needless to say, I never tried that, so I had no way of knowing.
It may have been something else that I did wrong, but they certainly didn't
work at all.
news:hinqsv$mtj$1@news.albasani.net...
> On 1/14/10, Lord Vetinari posted:
>> "Gene E. Bloch" <letters@someplace.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:hilkp1$9ek$1@news.albasani.net...
>>> On 1/11/10, aaaaa posted:
>>>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 1934 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
>>>> <letters@someplace.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Find, download, and install CDBurnerXP. It's free, and it easily makes
>>>>> ISO files and easily burns them to CDs or DVDs.
>>>
>>>
>>>> I tried it twice. Both created CDs (XP installation disk(\) were
>>>> created, but were not bootable. When I read the web instructions, it
>>>> appears that I would need a 'boot image' to make such CDs bootable,
>>>> which I do not have.
>>>
>>>> Thanks anyway
>>>
>>> Were you careful to choose the option "Burn ISO image"? If you burned
>>> the ISO to the disc as a *data* disc, it won't be bootable. It won't be
>>> much of anything...
>
>> Heh...a couple of times, I accidentally burned to a DVD, when it needed
>> to be a CD, and vice versa. Took a couple of minutes to figure out what
>> I'd done wrong.
>
> Interesting. I had assumed that doing that would just waste a few GB of
> unused track and a few pennies.
>
> Meaning that say 100 MB is about 1/7 of a CD and 1/44 of a DVD, but I
> thought either one would boot the same.
>
> Needless to say, I never tried that, so I had no way of knowing.
It may have been something else that I did wrong, but they certainly didn't
work at all.