Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file...

["Michael Fothergill" <mikef20000@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Miguel J. Jiménez" <MiguelJose.Jimenez@isotrol.com>
> To: Michael Fothergill <mikef20000@hotmail.com>
> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file...
> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:18:30 +0200
>
> Michael Fothergill escribió:
> > Dear Debianists,
> >
> > I downloaded an iso file for a Debian based distribution called 64 studio.
> >
> > I didn't use wget I just did a an http download.... It was only about 
> > 650MB or so and didn't take that long...
> >
> > http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/images.64studio.com/
> >
> > Iso file name was 64studio-install_1.0.0_amd64.iso
> >
> > I downloaded it all and then the Archive manager in Etch appeared and 
> > asked me what I wanted to do next.
> >
> > Normally I download with either wget or jigdo etc and get a sinlge iso 
> > file.  I am not used to dealing with the archive beastie.
> >
> > I was not so sure what to do with this so I hit the extract key.  I now 
> > have a whole bunch of directories that have what I assume is the contents 
> > of this distro.....
> >
> > But there is no single iso file.  It seems to have been broken downinto 
> > separate files and directories in some way.
> >
> >
> > Assuming all of it is there and I suspect it is is there way to issue some 
> > clever dick command that will sniff around in these directories and direct 
> > the burning of a CD with this distro on it?
> >
> > Failing this is there a command that can create a single iso file out of 
> > the files that archive manager downloaded that I can then use to burn the 
> > CD for this distro?
> >
> > If not I will go back and download it again with wget and get a single iso 
> > fiel and avoid the pesky and unpredictable archive beastie.
> >
> > Comments appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Michael Fothergill
> Mmm the ISO you just downloaded burn great in GNOME with nautilus doing 
> just "Right Click -> Burn image" ... if not, you can always install a burn 
> tool like breasero (bonfire) in GNOME and k3b under KDE

OK, I went in the /tmp area and to my pleasure I found the unmessed with iso 
file.  So I dumped it in the CD burner and now I have the CD I need.  I have 
moved the iso file to my/home directory in case I find there are errors in 
the CD I burned when I come to install the OS.....  In Debian Etch 
installations I run the installer and check the integrity of each CD before 
I install with them.  There are some MD5sum things in the repository but I 
am not sure how to use them to check the integrity of the CD I burnt.

Maybe the new distro has been modified enough so it will properly check the 
integrity of the CD itself. I will try it....

Now I can delete all these silly files created by this silly archive 
software that nobody knows what to do with anyway....

Thanks

Regards

Michael Fothergill





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