Burn the CD with k3b, mount it and check contents, looks fine -- but two
of my machines agree it's not a boot CD.
I even tried burning it again, using
cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=/dev/hdd -data
debian-testing-i386-binary-11.iso
-- checks out fine, but isn't bootable.
I noticed these have autorun.bat and .inf files in the root directory,
and the LordSutch doesn't, but find it had to believe this is the
problem. I can mount the iso image using
mount -o loop -t iso9660 debian-testing-i386-binary-11.iso loop
No errors, looks like a valid iso. I have an old potato install CD from
LordSutch that works fine on both tested machines -- and of course the
first two images I burned booted.
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Please tell me what's going on. Have I really downloaded four broken
iso images in a row? Since I even tried a stable image, I really don't
know where to turn.
This reminds me of the very first time I tried to install Debian, on
floppies, and I knew nothing about it; I stayed up all night and got
nowhere. I really want Debian and not Ubuntu, I'd like a recent version
at the base, and I need a driver for sk98lin or equivalent. But I
simply cannot afford to spend this much time getting a workable CD. One
of my burners -- a Pioneer DVR-104 -- doesn't recognize my rewritable
media, and the other, on a laptop, won't erase them, so I end up
producing lots of coasters.
Dave
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