boot from .msi image ??????

[Harry Kuhman]

sorry to have Troubled you Harry ! , i just read that alcohol cannot make a bootCD..

Again, I don't know Alcohol, but it's one thing for a package to not be able to make a bootable CD from scratch, it's quite another for a package to not be able to burn what's contained inside an iso and have the result boot (assuming the ISO was bootable). That's effectively just making a copy of a CD, although it is a copy from an ISO file rather than a copy made with 2 CD burners. (Not different at all from making a copy when you have a temp file and one drive). I'm appaled if Alcohol claims to burn ISO files but somehow changes something so the result is not bootable, but I'm not convinced that this is what is happening yet. Still, I do think it's better to try a program that is known to do the job right than to keep working with Alcohol.

i'm going to have to get a Nero prog and and start over, my g/f's fone will be tied up for several more days.

If using Nero 6 (and not the Nero for Dummies version), you want to use the File-> Open command to open the ISO and then burn it as slow as Nero will let you go.

Not sure why you need to get another ISO download. You didn't delete the last one before you knew the CD worked did you?? After days of download? Well, there is a new version out as of Wednesday, but there have been a lot of quick back to back releases lately; who knows how soon the next will be? I would not download the new one on dial-up just because it's new if you don't have to. Absolutely use Bittorrent; it will let you resume the download if needed with minimal loss. And don't delete the ISO early this time.

Good luck, keep in touch.