[SWLUG] Re: Run from CD Linux

[Pete Prior]

Additionally, here is a big list of how to burn isos in windows with 
various software packages.

http://members.home.nl/lsnoek/iso.htm

This page was found by typing "burn iso nero 6" (without the quotes) 
into 'Google' (thats http://www.google.com)

Hope this helps,

Pete

Rhys Sage wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions but sadly none seem to work
> so far.
> 
> I followed Pete's photos of writing an ISO image with
> Nero (I have Nero 5) and got as far as opening the ISO
> file, after which none of the window photos applied. I
> guess it's a different version of Nero. I had another
> go using Nero 5 on my own and got into that stupid
> loop of opening an ISO file and only being allowed to
> write it to the desktop as an NRG file then opening
> the NRG file and only being permitted to write the NRG
> file to the desktop, overwriting the previous copy of
> the NRG file. It's just an endless loop.
> 
> I followed Rhys Jones suggestion on writing ISO files
> and found a very nice utility that claimed to write
> ISO files straight to CD. That couldn't even identify
> my CD writer.
> 
> I double-clicked the ISO file as per Tony's suggestion
> and up came Sonic (which didn't have a clue what to do
> with ISO files) so I reassigned the extension to Nero
> and tried again. Same problem - Nero went into the
> writing endless NRG files again.
> 
> It seems that once again I am thwarted by Windows
> software. I would love to do so many things on the
> computer but there just seems to be so much software
> out there that just plain doesn't work. I guess I'm
> going to have to use a hardware solution to rescue the
> data on one PC - if I can get a USB caddy over the
> counter here.
> 
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