create a boot-able disk from an iso file

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 10 16:16:26 UTC 2011


On 10 January 2011 15:52, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
> [...]
> I finally was able to run Brosero of the ISO.  There was a file name problem
> which I overcame by renaming the file.  I was still unsuccessful.
>
> 1 the resulting disk was too large for a cr so I tried to create a DVD
> instead.  This seemed to work well in that a DVD was created and verified by
> Brasero to be good.  However, I was unable to boot from the DVD.  I think
> the computer allows booting from a DVD but I am not sure.  It is an Dell
> Inspiron 1501 and has a DVD disk reader/burner installed.

Have you checked the boot sequence by going into the BIOS on startup
and checking the the CD/DVD drive is checked before the hard disk?

Where did you get the image from?

Colin




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