How do I burn the Legacy Recovery CD

[Themk]

How can I burn it using the *.iso from the Garden.

Instructions for Linux would be preferable, but if you know an easy way to burn it on Windows that would be nice. I have gone through 5 different disks burning them different ways, none of them work on my 630 (which has an internal 2X CD-ROM drive).

BTW: I know the CD-ROM drive is okay, I used it to to load Oregon Trail II from a real MECC-made disk.

(Ugh: Just realized that while this affects my 630, it really belongs in the software subforum...)

 

[Johnnya101]

I don't know Windows, but for Mac you go in disk utility laid up the file and burn it to cd.

There's nothing special you have to do. Just select the image and burn it to the Cd. It's got to be 8x or less I think.

Just say your working with a 2x... Don't think this would work unless you can burn that slow or around it. Worth a try? I have a few old laptops that might be able to burn that slow.

 

[Themk]

Hmm, let me see if I can source a USB optical drive, and try this on my MBP.

 

[Themk]

Burning it on Mac OS 10, with speed set to 10X worked! Hmm, I would like a solution for burning it from my main computer, but at least now I know what to do!

 

[360alaska]

Use infrarecorder for windows

 

[Themk]

Yeah, I like infrarecorder. Unfortunately burning it (at 16x the slowest my SATA optical drive will burn things) was one of the four bad disks. I did that under Windows, setting the options as conservatively as possible. I'm not completely sure why it didn't work. I used the disk I burned on my main computer in a couple of other computers, but the old 2X CD-ROM drive would have nothing with it. :?:

 

[techknight]

Problem is most disc burners made today are absolute garbage. I tossed so many of them out. They use automatic power calibration and its continuous throughout the burn and it screws up so many discs. 

I still have an old Sony IDE burner that I kept and used a sata/IDE adapter and she burns flawlessly at all speeds. 

 

[Johnnya101]

My MacBook has burned everything well too...

 

[Themk]

Problem is most disc burners made today are absolute garbage.

Ironically, it was my el cheapo USB optical drive that managed to burn a working copy.

I tossed so many of them out. They use automatic power calibration and its continuous throughout the burn and it screws up so many discs.

Ironically, I just tossed out an IDE burner last month, (well, more like harvested the PCBs to desolder the SMD caps from for fun.) I still have my best burner, I should probably get an SATA->IDE bridge, I just hope it would play nicely with my SAS card.

 

[techknight]

Yea, Modern drives for me are a crapshoot. I have had one or two lite-on units work good, but a ton of them in the $15 to $25 NEW range be no good. 

So I went back to my old 2003 Sony drive, and I have a 2005 DVD Burner which is white/silver, which looks bad in a black case, BUT again, it works perfectly. 

 

[360alaska]

Yeah, I like infrarecorder. Unfortunately burning it (at 16x the slowest my SATA optical drive will burn things) was one of the four bad disks. I did that under Windows, setting the options as conservatively as possible. I'm not completely sure why it didn't work. I used the disk I burned on my main computer in a couple of other computers, but the old 2X CD-ROM drive would have nothing with it. :?:

I successfully burnt this exact image by selecting "burn image" and pointing it to the .toast file. I was using my Dell Latitude E5540 laptop.

 

[Themk]

Well, it burned fine, and I even got it to work in a Socket 7 based computer. The problem is that the mac would have nothing to do with it. Though, burning it with my USB CD-ROM drive on my MBP worked fine.

Not sure what to say, is my burner garbage?

 

[techknight]

Thats odd, it could also have something to do with the burning software? Maybe not keeping the bootable flag? 

 

[Themk]

Well, I used infrarecorder just like 360Alaska said to do...

 

[techknight]

Dont know that one. 

Only two pieces of software I have ever used besides disk utility, is Roxio Toast, and Imgburn. 

 

[Themk]

I used Imgburn too. That was the way I tried to burn it the first two times. I like Imgburn.

 

[techknight]

Yea, in modern times, I used Imgburn with my IDE Sony drive and never had issues. With my Bluray drive I havent tried. I bought that drive for archival purposes and NEVER used it. Go figure. 

 

[Themk]

I never really saw the point in buying a blu-ray optical drive. Sure it would be good for archival, as well as watching movies, but with all the DRM they point in blu-ray distributed movies, I couldn't get too terribly excited about it all.

The SATA burner I was using was from a Dell Core i7 920-based system. I re-purposed the CPU and motherboard to become a server, while taking the optical drive out and putting it in my main computer. Ironically, that i7 920 based system matches your signature quite well techknight, I even have the ATi Radeon HD 4850! Managed to get that system for free, as it "wouldn't power on". Dell was really cheap with the case, and the power button had completely broken, yet the system was still fine. (Oh, and the original PSU from dell also let out it's magic smoke, the HD 4850 was probably too much an upgrade for it, I still can't believe that's how cheap the PSU was though LOL).