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[smoky]

I have tried and tried to burn a successful image for Linux Mint, Ubuntu Heron, etc. But when I look for the image to burn a bootable disk, there isn't any.

Am I doing it all wrong, or am I just silly....

Please enlighten me to an easy way of making a bootable disk from these wonderful Linux programs I have downloaded...

Smoky

[kamil]

Hi Smoky, could you clarify what you mean? Did you download and burn an ISO file for a Linux distro? If so that CD/DVD should be bootable.

[SalmonEater]

I have tried and tried to burn a successful image for Linux Mint, Ubuntu Heron, etc. But when I look for the image to burn a bootable disk, there isn't any.

Am I doing it all wrong, or am I just silly....

Please enlighten me to an easy way of making a bootable disk from these wonderful Linux programs I have downloaded...

Smoky

This applies to linux -- you are in linux, aren't you?
From the command line or console, find out the name of your device

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wodim --devices

(Assuming your burner is on /dev/sr0). Go to the directory where your ISO image is

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cd [/path/to/image.iso]

Then burn the ISO to cd/dvd

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wodim -sao speed=4 image.iso

IMPORTANT: to verify the md5sum of the burnt image on cd, type

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md5sum /dev/sr0

Wait.
It will either return the md5sum or something like ". . . Input/output error"


i learned this from secipolla at the antX forum. Cool -- huh?

[flipflops]

For Burning Image use ImgBurn and add files or folders to your ISO. It is good software.

[dealingway]

I also learned a new knowledge.1600 battery