![]() ![]() ISO file in its root directory - and that is not going to be bootable.Įxtracting the ISO and burning the individual files, while making the necessary settings to make the resulting DVD bootable would be the extra-hard way to do it, I suppose. That will result in a DVD with only the selected. The most common error in burning the ISO to a DVD is to select it for burning just like any other type of a file. On a modern RHEL installation DVD, there should be at least "isolinux" and "EFI" directories for traditional and UEFI-based boot, respectively, and a Packages directory that contains all the RPM packages. Once complete, you should have a DVD whose root directory can be seen - in Windows as well as in Linux - to contain several directories and files. BIN/.CUE file pair, and possibly one or more of the more obscure CD/DVD image formats), and when you do so, it should be immediately ready to start burning. ![]() When you select it, the burning program will ask you to select one CD/DVD image file (usually the options include. Most CD/DVD burning programs have a specific function for image files, usually named "Burn Image" or something similar. ![]() Question 2: If I need to extract the files, how on earth do I do it in Windows 7? Question 1: Am I on the right track with my thinking? I am not seeing any option under Windows 7 to extract those files as I think I need. ![]() I think I had to extract the files, burn them to the DVD and then the machine could boot up and install the software. I think the problem was that just having the ISO burned to the disk was not sufficient. But when I have the disk in the DVD drive it reads the disk for a few seconds and then goes right into windows. My laptop BIOS is set to first boot off of the DVD drive. I followed the instructions on burning the ISO to a DVD. Right now I have no machines with Linux on it so bear that in mind here.Īlso note that I am burning the files on my other machine which has Windows 7 on it. I used to use RH Linux years ago and am now in the process of trying to install RHL desktop onto my old vista laptop. ![]()
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