The order can be floppy, cdrom, then hdd0, or in older systems (if you have two choices) cdrom, then hdd0.
The system may seem to check the CDROM drive, but not seek the drive for a boot image. Make sure that you have the bios set correctly to boot the cd drive before the hard drive. Also, just putting the iso files on a hard drive does not make them bootable or usable.
Puppy Video Tutorial - How to Burn the Puppy CD, using BurnCDCC in WindowsĪnother, less often seen mistake is to extract the iso files to a hard drive, or extract the image to a directory using a utility like isobuster, then attempt to burn the directories and files to a cdr disk. Or look under the "What Burning Software are you using?" section of this page. Do a Google search for a free XP or Windows compatible CD burning utility that will burn ISOs. The XP utility only burns a data disk, which is not what you want. For example, in Nero, you go to the main file menu and just choose the "burn image" option (not "burn bootable image").ĭo not use the Windows XP burner utility to burn your images. Also, make sure to burn all the images that you downloaded this way. In order to properly burn an iso image, you must instruct your burning software to use the "burn image" function. Just burning the file on a cdr media as a data file does not properly set up the disk or make the disk bootable (which is what you want to do). What is one of the most common mistakes new users of Linux make? It is improperly burning iso images. A slow speed of 4x or 8x will increase the probability of getting a working and quality ISO. 
Do this before burning the ISO.Ī slow burn speed is best.
Successfully burning a Linux iso image before, tells you that your drive is probably functioning properly and the burning software that you are using is set up corectly.Īfter downloading the ISO, verify the integrity of the download by checking the Md5sum. If so, then you will be OK with Puppy, or already know how to burn an iso image and do not need this tutorial. Have you burned (created) an CD image (ISO) before and tried an install of any other Linux distro? HomePage > ComponentHowTo Components and HowTos > InstallationIndex Install
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