[SoaS] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News

[James Cameron]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 07:19:50PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> 1) I burned both the Strawberry and Blueberry files on CDs, thinking
> they would be live CDs... wrong!  Neither would boot on my friend's
> PC. He said it is because they are "iso" files.  Did I miss something?
> How do I turn these files into a bootable file that I can burn to a CD
> to make a live CD?

You most likely burned the ISO files by placing them inside another
ISO structure.  It is a common mistake.

(It's like putting a ZIP file inside another ZIP file ... sane as far as
a human thinks, insane as far as BIOS of a computer thinks ... it won't
proceed).

The exact way to fix it depends on the software you used to burn the CD.

Quick Google research ... there seem to be two methods:

1.  "open the Disk utility, hit CMD+B and select the image to write.",
and

2.  at Terminal prompt type

	hdiutil burn soas-2-blueberry.iso

References:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060619181010389
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Installing_Mandriva_Linux/Writing_CD_and_DVD_images#With_Mac_OS_X

> 3) There is a problem with the "image-writer-mac" file.  I have tried to open
> the one on Tom's starter kit and have also downloaded it several times and
> tried. It will not open. I always get this error message:
> 
> "The document  image-writer-mac  could not be opened. PythonLauncher cannot
> open files of this type."

You must not open it that way.  You should open Terminal, and type

cd ~/Downloads; python image-writer-mac.py soas-2-blueberry.iso

Doing it this way should not cause PythonLauncher to be run.  Can you
please confirm you were trying to open the file in a Finder window?

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/