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.