My computer hates .iso images

tablex

About 2 weeks ago I decided to download Mandrake 9.1 these were 3 .iso images, so when I tried to install these on my new computer, I get errors like:

VFS: Cannot open root device 03:03
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03

The errors occur after it's uncompressing the image...

I tried to find an answer on the Mandrake site, but I found nada, does any1 know what goes wrong?

Thanks

jerdo

Have you tried burning the images to cd? And not just copying them to a cd, you have to use your burning software to create a disc from image. Check the switches for your software.

tablex

I searched for that option but couldn't find it...
I'm using easy cd creator 5, does this program have this option?

Sxooter

If you want to check to see if you got the ISO intact, you can md5sum the iso image:

md5sum imagename.iso

and compare that to the md5 signature from the site. If the md5 sig matches, you can loop back mount it to make sure it's what you want:

mkdir /mnt/isotest
mount image.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/isotest
cd /mnt/isotest

Note that the image is NOT generally compressed, unless it has a .gz or .bz2 extenstion on it.

jerdo

Yes EZCD Creator has that option. In most versions you go to File->select Create CD from Disc Image->select ISO Image Files(*.iso) from the drop down->point the file selector to the directory the images are in. That should get you up and going.