Re: Learning BDI Emc - Outputs

["William Scalione" <wscalione-at-nc.rr.com>]

That's it, Create the CD from an image and it should work.

Bill

>
> Bill -
>
> Hey - thanks, that's good info.  Too bad that detail wasn't mentioned
> on the download instructions.
>
> The software I am using is Adaptec Easy CD Creator and I see an
> option to create CD from disk image.  So I suppose that's what I need
> to do.
>
> So stand by we'll get there.  Thanks again.
>
> Jack Ensor
>
>
> William Scalione wrote:
> >
> > OK, just hang in there we'll get you through this. It can be fustrating
> > sometimes. I know, I went through it before.
> >
> > First of all what software are you using to burn the CD?
> >
> > In your windows machine, put the CD you just burned in and
> > open it up. Do you see a bunch of directories (folders) and
> > some files or is there only one file named bdiemc-2.11-01.iso
> > If the latter, you only ended up copying the image file to the
> > CD which will NOT work. An image file is sort of like a zip file,
> > containing all the info to recreate an exact copy of the CD all
> > contained in one file. The original CD may have contained
> > 10,000 files but the disk image will only be one file and it needs
> > to be properly 'decoded' to get those files back on the disk in
> > the proper order in the proper directories.
> >
> > Here is a quote from WinImage software.
> > "A disk image is a file which is an exact and complete image of a
> > floppy disk (or CD). The image contains information on the disk
> > format and structure, such as FAT, boot sector, directories,
> > and all files."
> >
> > If when you look at the disk, if you see all of the files and
directories
> > and it won't boot let me know, and I will burn one and send it off to
> > you if you wish.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > >
> > > Bill-
> > >
> > > I did as you directed me to and got the cd burned with the new
> > > extension of .iso on its  name.  I then tried to boot on it in my
> > > linux machine and still get a boot failure.  Is this supposed to boot
> > > it or how does one use this to install the bdiemc-2.11?  Maybe I just
> > > have a bad copy.
> > >
> > > Jack Ensor
>
>