Boot disk for Mandriva, Linux?
How do you make the boot disk for Mandriva? I downloaded the .iso files (694MB) and I mounted them to my VirtualDrive, then I copied the files to a DVDRW…but it doesn’t boot! I’ve never made a boot disk and I’m not understanding all the forums I’m reading on how to do it. Is there a premade program that can do it for me? It says to make the disk bootable…I’ve never done that either. I have Nero and it has the option to make a bootable disk but I don’t know which files to use…it says something about the extension .img to use but I can’t find that in the Mandriva package I downloaded. So basically, how do you make the boot floppy disk, boot USB stick, or boot CD/DVD disk? Which boot file(s) do I use?
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Filed under: Mandrake
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google for the"boot disk" get the program for you to know how to solve this problem.
good luck!
You can’t just copy files. You have to burn this .iso file.
You can use http://www.imgburn.com/ free software to burn it.
If you want to use Nero then you have to use "Burn Image" option.
You may want to look at this, it is on the ubuntu website but you can use the instructions for any iso file.:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
After you have burned the iso to the disk, reboot your computer and see if there is a bios option for changing the boot order. Generally, the computer will look for an os it can boot on the hard drive first, then the cd drive/s, then the usb port, ect. Usually the bios setup place is by pressing the F8 key while booting up.