please help

[Dana]

Thanks for all your help which helped me get going but
unfortunately so far unsuccessfully.

I am using Nero to burn the CD's because that is what I
have. The first two attempts yeilded CD's with the ISO
copied. So they were coasters. Next I went to Nero's
home page and downloaded the update to version 5.5
which can handle ISO's and I was able to transfer the
ISO image correctly.

So I put it in the CD player on my machine (which is
much older than the Windows machine that the CD-ROM
was created on and it refused to boot.

No problem, I'll make a floppy boot disk with the instructions
provided. I make the boot disk and it does in fact start to boot.
Oh happy day. But it doesn't matter what mode I select, even
text mode, it gets so far along and then says it can't continue due
to bad media.

Do you think I have to get a faster/newer CD-ROM drive? The
one I have is an old 20X. Or is it something else. Bad karma?

Dana

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey A. McCright" <jmccright2 at home.com>
To: "'Dana'" <akadanak at kc.rr.com>; <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 12:08 PM
Subject: RE: please help

> Yes, you can burn the ISO image using any OS that supports your CD-ROM
> burner. The trick is to use a CD-ROM burning software package that
supports
> burning from a CD image file. For example, HP's bundled software with
their
> newer drives do not support ISO format images, but do support the CIF
> format. Adaptec Easy CD creator version 3 and later supports both formats.
>
> Yes, you can burn the 47 MB iso image to a 650/700 MB CD and it will still
> work. I just did it to be sure.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeffrey A. McCright