Re: help with Linux and mesh required!

[Bruno Prior <bruno@xxxxxxx>]

Martin,

I am guessing that you are burning the ISO to the CD as a regular file.
That won't work. You have to tell your CD burning program that the file
is an ISO to burn direct, rather than creating a filesystem on the CD 
and placing the ISO as a file on that filesystem.

How you do this depends on your software. If you have Easy CD Creator on
Windows, use the File menu, and there is an option there that says 
something about burning an image (can't remember the exact words - don't
have a Windows machine nearby).

>from
installed, you can do "cdrecord -v dev=2,0 filename.iso". You
need to 
change dev to the appropriate figures for your system (your CD-writer 
should be using ide-scsi, so check /proc/scsi for the appropriate device
numbers), and use the appropriate filename for the ISO image file. You 
will probably also want to add other parameters, for example, to set the
burning speed to something that your CD-writer supports. See the 
cdrecord manpage for options. Or use one of the many GUI frontends 
available (X-CD-Roast, GCombust, Gnome-Toaster, CDBakeOven, Eroaster
etc.)

The main point is not to burn the ISO as a file on a filesystem, but as
an image of the whole filesystem.

Cheers,

Bruno Prior


Martin Howell wrote:
> Sorry boys, I am drowning in linux and need some pointers.  I
want to 
> try out the Mesh networks software for wireless LANs (discussed here a
> week ago), and have downloaded the .zip file.  So far so
good.  Its 
> supposed to unzip into a file that can be burned on to a CD and then
> used to boot the PC, thus not loading anything on to the hard
drive.
> 
> I've unzipped it using a windows/linux unzipper, and it gives me a
.iso 
> file.  Windows can't read it, and linux agrees that it is an
executable 
> file, but won't run it.  If I burn it to a CD, the machine won't
boot 
> from it.
> 
> Any idea what I am doing wrong?  Does the .iso file need to be
massaged 
> before its capable of booting?  I have assumed that it contains a
boot 
> system as part of the file, but the PC can't find it if its there.
> 
> Any assistance will be most welcome, the ol' brain is starting to fizz
> and smoke...
> 
> Thanks
> Martin



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