CDROM Booting Problems

[Francois Ouellette]

May also depend on how the CD was burned, some programs like Roxio offer
different options on 'closing' the CD and the bootable part might not be
recognized by the either the CD drive or the BIOS.

 François Ouellette
<fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>

> On several PII machines I've worked with, the CDROM unit would read
> pre-pressed CDs (such as Windows 98 or 2000 installs) fine but would not
> read a burned CD-R. My only ways around the problem were to either
> install a newer CDROM drive or use an NFS install from a server.
>
> These days I don't bother burning install CD's - I do all my slack-10
> installs via NFS (all meaning 4 so far in my case).
>
> Good Luck
>
> Allen



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