Re: cd burning not going well
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:35:00PM -0300, tyler wrote:
>
> I'm trying to burn a copy of Xubuntu as a rescue disk. My laptop
> (Thinkpad R60) is running Lenny, with KB3 installed. I also have access
> to a variety of machines running Windows. I have tried no less than a
> dozen times to burn this @#$% CD, and every time has failed. I have
> tried the following:
>
> Different downloaded image files (all pass md5sum checks)
> Different machines/cd burners/OS (windows/debian)
> Different CD media - HP, Sony, Memorex, no-name, mostly CD-R but a few
> CD-RW
> Different burn speeds - usually the lowest possible for a given CD, but
> also medium and top speed.
> Different burning programs (KB3, command line, various MSWindows apps)
>
>
> A typical result is burning the CD with KB3, which appears to work, but
> then complains that the disk image does not match the downloaded ISO
> when the verification check completes. If I try and boot these CDs, they
> get me as far as the Xubuntu opening screen, but when I use the built-in
> 'check CD integrity' it fails. Trying to boot anyways fails, it just
> hangs.
>
Sounds like data corruption somewhere. Have you tried downloading by a
different machine (despite the good MD5sum)? Can you sucessfully burn
a different CD?
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