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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Burn bootable CD ISO to DVD

Heya,

I'm in a bit of an odd position right now. I have tons of DVD+Rs, but no CD-Rs So, I'd like to burn some bootable CD images (Arch, for example) to DVD. Is there anything special I need to do? I'm asking because I'd prefer not to waste discs experimenting. The only stuff I've found Googling is taking the CDs from distros that don't offer a DVD install and merging them - that, and making a special DVD with multiple LiveCDs. If I just want to burn a bootable CD ISO to a DVD, what should I do? Proceed as if it's a DVD image? Will that cause problems because of the different filesystem of CDs vs DVDs?

Thanks!

xaiviax

Member

From: Michigan

Registered: 2008-11-04

Posts: 282

Re: Burn bootable CD ISO to DVD

I've done this alot (for the same reasons), and never done anything special or had any issues.

speng

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Registered: 2009-01-17

Posts: 136

Re: Burn bootable CD ISO to DVD

I tried doing this when I had OpenSUSE 11.1 and it never booted for some reason, wasted 2 DVDs. Eventually I found a CD floating around somewhere and it worked great.

Can't be of much help as I didn't figure out what the problem was.

u_no_hu

Member

Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 453

Re: Burn bootable CD ISO to DVD

I just use a single DVD rw for all my cd/dvd iso needs. It works fine without any special change. And i usually use bashburn if that helps.... I guess it does some auto detections stuff.....

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