Anythning Wrong With These Commands

**rtrahan** · 02-14-2009, 05:29 AM

If I download an .iso to my Desktop and want to burn it so that it will boot.

First move it to my /home directory.

$ sudo mkisofs -o home.iso /home {to create a ISO9660 Image}

$ isoinfo -d -i home.iso {when I did this it said Hierarchical File}

cdrecord -v -eject home.iso {burn to cd rom}

It worked before but not now so I'm trying to figure out what I did wrong this time..I've read over the instructions quite a few times.
If the command's are good then it was a bad download?

Thanks in advacne

**Harry Kuhman** · 02-14-2009, 06:21 AM

If you have downloaded an ISO, why are you trying to do the first command to turn it into an ISO?

**Harry Kuhman** · 02-14-2009, 06:24 AM

Originally Posted by rtrahan

If the command's are good then it was a bad download?

If you want to know if you have a good download, check the md5 checksum.

If you just want to get a good download, use the BitTorrent protocol instead of a mirror and be sure to let the download finish (don't stop it manually as soon as you see the 100% figure).