Fedora ISO

[Insectoid]

So, I have a problem.

I downloaded the Fedora 11 ISO in hopes of installing it on my spare computer. Unfortunately, the computer I'm downloading it on (macbook pro) uses an Intel dual-core processor with i686 arhitecture, while the computer I want to burn to is running a P4 with x86. I can't mount the x86 ISO to burn it to a disk on my mac, and my PC won't run the i686 one. Any way I can burn the x86 ISO to a disk from my mac?

[DtY]

Why do you need to mount it? Is that a mac thing? (I've never burned an iso on a mac)
It shouldn't matter that they're different architectures. I'm pretty sure I burned an x86_64 fedora 11 iso on my 32bit fedora computer.

[edit] Doesn't x86 mean i686, i486, and i386?

[rdrake]

insectoid @ Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:06 pm wrote:

...uses an Intel dual-core processor with i686 arhitecture

You mean x86_64? If it's a C2D running Leopard then chances are quite high it's 64-bit. Actually, I'm 100% sure it is.

insectoid @ Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:06 pm wrote:

...uses an Intel dual-core processor with i686 arhitecture, while the computer I want to burn to is running a P4 with x86.

It doesn't matter.

insectoid @ Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:06 pm wrote:

I can't mount the x86 ISO to burn it to a disk on my mac

Yes, you can.

insectoid @ Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:06 pm wrote:

...and my PC won't run the i686 one.

It should be able to run some form of x86 version. Be it i686 or i586 or...

insectoid @ Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:06 pm wrote:

Any way I can burn the x86 ISO to a disk from my mac?

Same way you burn any ISO from a Mac. I don't recall off hand what it's called.

DtY @ Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:53 pm wrote:

Why do you need to mount it? Is that a mac thing? (I've never burned an iso on a mac)
It shouldn't matter that they're different architectures. I'm pretty sure I burned an x86_64 fedora 11 iso on my 32bit fedora computer.

[edit] Doesn't x86 mean i686, i486, and i386?

He doesn't, no it's not.

It doesn't, you could and probably did.

Yes, x86 means i[0-9]86.

[Mazer]

WAIT.

Before you do anything else, can you find out if the ISO is written as a low- or high-endian image? Depending on where you downloaded it you may also have what's called "mid-endian", which you can tell is the case if the file seems about 50% larger.

Do you know what firmware version your burner has? With newer ones you don't want to make a mistake here. I'm assuming you are using Leopard, open a terminal and execute

code:

$ cat /proc/iso

and it should give us something to go on.

In the future, try and avoid downloading ISOs using a different OS than they're made for. You've probably got the Apple Care warranty so worst case scenario it's a lesson learned.

[rizzix]

I thought an ISO was a standardized image format.

[andrew.]

Mazer @ Sun Aug 16, 2009 3:19 pm wrote:

In the future, try and avoid downloading ISOs using a different OS than they're made for.

What do you mean by this? Mac OS has no issues with ISOs if that's what you're saying.

rizzix wrote:

I thought an ISO was a standardized image format.

Yeah, but I think it can be encoded in different ways kind of like a text file.

[rdrake]

andrew. @ Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:06 pm wrote:

rizzix wrote:

I thought an ISO was a standardized image format.

Yeah, but I think it can be encoded in different ways kind of like a text file.

The file format inside the ISO can be different, sure, but the ISO format itself is a standard.

Edit: Deleted too much of the original post.

[Insectoid]

lol, don't I look stupid. At any rate, OSX needs to mount the image to burn the iso without putting the ISO inside another ISO. Or something like that that I read on the interweb. And it won't mount. Says it's 'unrecognized'.

Regular burning takes the files, writes them to iso and then burns them. If I burn the iso like any other file, it will write the iso to another iso and then to the disk. I need to skip the part where it writes the file to an iso.

[TheGuardian001]

I can't guarantee these are accurate steps (I don't have a Mac and can't test them), but this seems to be the kind of thing you're looking for.

[rizzix]

insectoid @ Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:39 pm wrote:

lol, don't I look stupid. At any rate, OSX needs to mount the image to burn the iso without putting the ISO inside another ISO. Or something like that that I read on the interweb. And it won't mount. Says it's 'unrecognized'.

Regular burning takes the files, writes them to iso and then burns them. If I burn the iso like any other file, it will write the iso to another iso and then to the disk. I need to skip the part where it writes the file to an iso.

I think you have it all wrong. Use Disk Utility to burn the iso. (it require no mounting)

[Insectoid]

I was using disk utility.

I hit file ->open disk image -> the iso and it said it 'Unable to attach Fedora-11-i686-live.iso. The file is not recognized'

[andrew.]

Did you download it fully? It may be corrupted. Check the MD5 checksum on it.

[Mazer]

As much fun as it is to bullshit, I will say that you're doing it wrong after all. Or at least, here's how I've been doing it right:
Open Disk Utility. Go to the Images menu, select Burn, find the image file, you can probably work it out from here on your own.

EDIT: No wait, I mean make sure you download the OSX version of Fedora.

[Insectoid]

The osx version? That will install on a PC right?

At any rate, that way doesn't work either.

[andrew.]

Mazer @ Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:54 pm wrote:

EDIT: No wait, I mean make sure you download the OSX version of Fedora.

You're joking, right?