Here is a quick primer on how to burn ISO images to a CD. The assumption is that you downloaded Shrike ISO images to a Windows machine and now you want to write them to CD. Red Hat CD's are based on ISO9660 images with Rock Ridge Extensions. What's this Rock stuff about? Unix/Linux filenames can be long, and each file has permissions associated with it. The case of the filenames can be mixed (upper, lowercase). See http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq03.html#S3-5 for details. You have to think ISO9660 and Rock Ridge Extensions when analyzing whether the CD burning software can do your Shrike CDs. For Nero and Easy CD Creator, see this resource: http://www.petri.co.il/howto_write_iso_files.htm Note that searching Easy CD Creator's support will bring up this little gem on Rock Ridge extensions: http://www.roxio.com/en/support/cdr/osunix.html My general experience is that Easy CD Creator can do a splendid job supporting Rock Ridge extensions. A bigger problem is whether it can correctly support your specific CD drive. It sometimes cannot support specific drives, so be sure to check whether your drive is supported. Bundled or "free" Windows CD-writing software may have trouble with ISO images, especially those with Rock Ridge Extensions. Check the program help carefully to determine whether it can support writing ISO images to CD. Hints: You don't want to burn a "data" CD. You want to write an ISO file image to CD. Consider burning at a slower speed than the maximum rated speed of your media or your drive. Think back to how you downloaded the ISO images. Were they downloaded as a binary transfer? If you used ASCII by mistake, save yourself some grief and download the image(s) again, this time using binary format. Are you sure you actually used the software option to burn an ISO image? Take notes about what you did. Write down the command lines or GUI options you used. If your first CD can't be read normally after burning, stop and think about why this is happening. Don't think you will solve the problem by throwing many CD's at it. Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
