Nero contains image of a bootable floppy...?

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Thufir said:
Does this mean that to make a a boot disc I need a linux boot floppy?
That seems strange, if so...

.... ask the nero folks.

Nero System Requirements
Nero General Requirement
* Microsoft® Windows 95B, NT4, 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, Server 2003
 
Nero Express says:

"The Nero installation contains an image of bootable floppy disk, which
will be used to make your disc bootable. You can select a boot locale,
which will prepare the appropiate country code page and keyboard layout
for included DOS."

Or, I can insert a boot floppy, which Nero will use as a model for the
disc.

Does this mean that to make a a boot disc I need a linux boot floppy?
That seems strange, if so...


Thanks,

Thufir Hawat
 
Thufir wrote something almost unintelligible:
Does this mean that to make a a boot disc I need
a linux boot floppy?
That seems strange, if so...

Your message is cryptic, but I'm guessing you are trying to burn an
installation disk image (or something like that).

If you have an ISO image, you don't need to worry about bootable
settings in Nero. Just burn the image in disk at once mode and it just
works.

If this is not what you are asking, please restate your question so us
mortals can understand it. What are you trying to do? What kind of
bootable disk? What are you burning? (source?) Is it an ISO image or
what? Where did you get it?

I've gotten a lot of good advice from this newsgroup and I'm happy to
return the favor when I can without being short with people, but please
think about what you are posting! You post almost seems like an answer
in some other thread, but if it is, there are no quotes.
Tom F.
 
Sorry for being cryptic! All your assumptions are correct. I'm trying
to burn
<http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-disc1.iso
as a bootable disc like so:

open Nero Express
select Data, bootable data disc
add FC3-i386-disc1.iso
click "next"

Now I'm presented with the choice selecting either "read boot disc in
drive" or "use standard boot image," neither of which I want.

I don't see a "disc at once" option, I'll take another look later,
though...?


thanks,

Thufir Hawat
 
Thufir said:
because it's a dual-boot with win2k system, I selected that the
bootloader (grub?) not go on the MBR, but "hda," IIRC.  Does that
make sense? 

.... no, it doesnt. if you installed to /dev/hda, then
you INDEED installed it to the MBR. maybe you meant /dev/hda?
 
Thufir wrote:

open Nero Express
select Data, bootable data disc
add FC3-i386-disc1.iso
click "next"
No, no. This is your problem. You do NOT want any sort of data disk,
bootable or otherwise.

I'm not sure where it is exactly (it's been a while since i fired up
windows, let alone Nero) but you want to burn ISO image. That's the option,
wizard or whatever you should look for.

Forget about anything that says "data disk." You're not burning data, per
say, but an image. Sure the CD will contain data, but it's inside the
image. Do you follow?

The image is already bootable. Just burn it and it will boot all by itself.
Like magic. ;-)
Now I'm presented with the choice selecting either "read boot disc in
drive" or "use standard boot image," neither of which I want.
This is all a blind alley. You will just make more coasters.
I don't see a "disc at once" option, I'll take another look later,
though...?
Now that I think about it, you probably won't need to choose disk at once
since you are burning an image. But you shouldn't burn any sort of session
or anything, just in case.
 
Tom said:
Thufir wrote:




No, no. This is your problem. You do NOT want any sort of data disk,
bootable or otherwise.

I'm not sure where it is exactly (it's been a while since i fired up
windows, let alone Nero) but you want to burn ISO image. That's the option,
wizard or whatever you should look for.

Use Nero Express and in the opening screen ("What would you like to
burn") select the bottom option ("Disk Image or saved Project").

Then browse to the .iso file.


Or use the main program:

- Cancel the wizard
- Select the "Recorder" dropdown from menu bar near the top.
- Select "Burn Image"
- browse to the .iso file


This is for Nero 6
 
Thufir said:
Sorry for being cryptic! All your assumptions are correct. I'm trying
to burn
<http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-disc1.iso

open Nero Express
select Data, bootable data disc
add FC3-i386-disc1.iso
click "next"

Now I'm presented with the choice selecting either "read boot disc in
drive" or "use standard boot image," neither of which I want.

I don't see a "disc at once" option, I'll take another look later,
though...?

Start Nero, close the Wizard window, go to the menu 'Recorder' and choose
'Burn Image'
 
Thufir said:
Sorry for being cryptic! All your assumptions are correct. I'm trying
to burn
<http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-disc1.iso

open Nero Express
select Data, bootable data disc
add FC3-i386-disc1.iso
click "next"

Now I'm presented with the choice selecting either "read boot disc in
drive" or "use standard boot image," neither of which I want.

I don't see a "disc at once" option, I'll take another look later,
though...?

The easy way is to double click the 'fedora3.ix86.ISO' and Nero will start
( if Nero is the default program for ISO files )
 
Right-click on your .iso file.
Choose "Open With" from the menu.
Navigate to nero.exe
Make sure "Always use this program ... " is checked.
Double click on nero.exe.
Follow the bouncing ball.

Next time all you'll have to do is double-click on your .iso file.
 
Colon said:
Right-click on your .iso file.
Choose "Open With" from the menu.
Navigate to nero.exe
Make sure "Always use this program ... " is checked.
Double click on nero.exe.
Follow the bouncing ball.

Next time all you'll have to do is double-click on your .iso file.
[..]


Thanks :)

because it's a dual-boot with win2k system, I selected that the
bootloader (grub?) *not* go on the MBR, but "hda," IIRC. Does that
make sense? I must've goofed, though, because it boots directly into
windows, which I selected as the default, without presenting a menu of
windows or fedora. It also mentioned a "logical drive", which I'd
never seen before, when formatting the unused portion of the hard
drive. Anyhow, all is good!


Thufir Hawat
 
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