[lug] more boot CD

[John Hernandez]

I just need to rant a little about this.  Does anyone else find it absurd that (to this day) you can install a program on a Windows system that "conflicts" with another program and makes the whole OS go haywire?  Is this an artifact of having a shared registry architecture?

Can you imagine someone saying, "Oh, on Linux, that version of mpg123 doesn't get along with cdrecord and crashes your system!"

Are there any clear advantages to the Windows way of managing software packages and the central registry?  It seems like uninstalls rarely do what you expect, and programs fight each other for control of variables, etc.

-John

"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> "D. Stimits" wrote:
> >
> > I believe I have managed to create an iso9660/rockridge/joliet bootable
> > image which is in the form of a file on the hard drive. My next obstacle
> > is figuring out how to do the equivalent of rawrite to the cd burner on
> > a win 2k machine. What the machine wants to do is turn it into a regular
> > file on a UDF filesystem...obviously it does not boot. That machine has
> > an HP burner on it, and I'm wondering if anyone here has any suggestions
> > on how to create a bootable cd on a win 2k machine? It seems the
> > software is trying "simplify" things so much that it has removed the
> > ability to create boot cd's, other than through its "backup" facility
> > for the current system. This cd burner is OEM, so it does not come with
> > a manual. Suggestions welcome.
> >
> > D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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> One suggestion I was given is that RealPlayer and EasyCD Creator don't
> get along. Apparently this is the key. The software that came with the
> CD burner included EasyCD Creator, which is what caused lockups and made
> the machine unusable. What I did was upgrade RealPlayer from version 7.0
> to version 7.1, and after that, EasyCD creator worked on Win 2k! No more
> lockups. I tested a file that I created on linux by telling it to use
> the file (from Win 2k) to burn a new ISO, and it worked. Next I have to
> work on making the CD bootable (I think the major battle has been won).
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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