Burning ISO disks?? Make them bootable?

[Spuds725]

Excuse the newbie question, I did search and read several install instructions but could not find the answer.

I downloaded all the ISOs for SUSE 10.1...

I am using CDBurnerXP Pro 3 on Windows XP home to burn my CDs and am just wondering if I need to specify whether all the disks should be bootable or just the first disk or none at all-- I know I am burrning them as ISO images, just don't know if I should specify them as bootable or not).

Sorry if this is in here somewhere... I did look.

Thanks in advance...

Spuds/Bill...

[Thrillhouse]

Just to be safe, mark them all as bootable. As long as you burn them as an image, though, you should be fine.

Just out of curiosity, is there any reason you're using 10.1 instead of the newly released 10.2?

[antidrugue]

No, you don't need to specify them as bootable. At least I never do. I don't believe they will work if you do.

Make sure you verified the MD5SUM of all your .iso before burning them. Also, you should burn at low speed (4x) for maximum reliability.

[Thrillhouse]

I don't believe they will work if you do.

Honestly, I don't think it matters. I've used that software he's using before and have tried it both ways. Didn't notice a difference on either of them.

[antidrugue]

In fact, I think you are right that it doesn't matter, but there is an explanation to this.

It is simply that specifying "Bootable" does nothing for a .iso image. If it did, it would had a header containing either FreeDOS or some other boot capable OS to your disk, like it does in NERO. Clearly that would make the disk image unusable. So the application just does honor your "make it bootable" order when .iso are used.

At least that is my understanding of it.

[Spuds725]

Told you it was a "newb" question... thanks for all the responses... I wasn't sure if it mattered or not... I clearly don't know exactly what an "ISO" is...

Just out of curiosity, is there any reason you're using 10.1 instead of the newly released 10.2?

How long ago was it released??

I downloaded it (10.1) a few weeks ago-- I had linked to it a bit before that so maybe 10.2 wasn't out yet... I really don't recall

Anybody recommend-- I re-download the newer version before I make the leap?? Advantages/disadvantages??

Bill

[oldcpu]

Just to be safe, mark them all as bootable. As long as you burn them as an image, though, you should be fine. 10.2?

Arggg, ...no thats not really the way to play it safe. I'm glad to read this reply was already corrected. By marking to make them bootable, you risk putting a windows kernel on the CD, which is not what you want. The iso image comes with a linux boot kernel already part of the iso image.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sus...ease-read.html

Also, one does not select "burn as an ISO" file, or what ever. What one wants to do is take the ISO image, and precisely map it on to the CD, and that is done by burning as an "IMAGE".

[Thrillhouse]

How long ago was it released??

I downloaded it (10.1) a few weeks ago-- I had linked to it a bit before that so maybe 10.2 wasn't out yet... I really don't recall

Anybody recommend-- I re-download the newer version before I make the leap?? Advantages/disadvantages??

Bill

10.2 was released a few days ago. You can download it here:

http://en.opensuse.org/Download

The biggest change is the menu set-up. 10.1 uses the old style Gnome and KDE menus whereas 10.2 uses Novell's new "Slab" menu for Gnome and a restructured KDE menu. I personally like 10.1 better than 10.2, not just for the menu layout but because its hardware detection was better on my machine. Try both and see which you like better.

[Spuds725]

Thanks oldcpu

Using CDBURNER XP Pro I will be selecting--

Write disc from ISO file

as opposed to

Save image as ISO file

Thanks Thrill.... I probably won't be able to tell the difference

I actually started downloading 10.2 right after posting my above quiestion (had to leave the house and run some errands)... I'm using bit torrent (my first experience with that)-- pretty cool application-- 45% done so far...

Thanks for everyones help and advice...

Spuds/Bill