burning iso - help

[gring00]

I've got a hp ide burner, installed as a slave to my main cd drive. Got nero 5.0 demo . I've tried burning a downloaded iso onto a cd, which nero said was ok, but the cd appears to be blank, and my linux box won't boot from it - so it must be blank!
I'm using the file - burn image method, leaving the image type defaults.
any thoughts or suggestions ...

ta

[aef]

Ok, some more information would be useful...

Does the CD appear unformatted, or formatted but empty?

Have you written CDs from ISO images with that method before? On the same type of media?

Perhaps the CD-writer itself will read the CD< but not your CD-ROM drive. Is this the case?

Have you booted you Linux machine from a CD before? Will it boot now from another bootable CD?

Are there any known problems with your CD burner (I seem to remember something about HP writers and firmware a while back)?

Have you tried burning a /different/ ISO image onto the same type of media to see if that works?

Some burner software will do a "trial run" in which it'll do everything except actually burn the bits onto the CD as it's spinning, to check for buffer under/overruns and the like. Are you sure that this isn't what's happening?

Have you tried just doing it again (this is Windows...)?

Burning CDs is something of a black art. When all else fails, sacrifice a goat.

AEF

[§t3@lth]

I can see where he is coming from.. maybe you could explain abit more...

[gring00]

well, I got this sorted in the end.
I was using the demo of nero, so I went and bought easy cd, only 25 quid, not as much as I thought. A couple of reinstalls and much ide cable giggling and a win2k reinstall later I now have two fresh mandrake 8.0 cds.
Installing now, maybe I'll post impressions etc later.
Thanks for your comments.

next job is to get this machine working as a adsl gateway/firewall. Much fun awaits.

:)

[Richtofen]

pcplus has an adsl linux firewall on it - "Smoothwall Firewall 0.9.8 and 0.9.6"
Runs on Win 9x, 2000 and of course Linux.
Its the June edition so U should be able to find it.
U might also eant to upgrade to the latest edition of Nero.
I think its 5.0.3.8 which is what I'm using, but I think 5.4 is either out or due soon.