Re: cd burning not going well

[tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

"Michael Marsh" <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:41 PM, tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>> I have tried downloading on three different machines. I just now tried
>> to burn the LinuxMint CD, which failed with the same error.
>
> Have you tried running isovfy (from genisoimages) on the isos?  

I have now, no problems detected.

> Other things that come to mind are bad CDs

I've tried three or four different brands, including some newly
purchased and used the same day.

>  or neglecting to finalize the CDs.

How do you finalize a CD? If I use K3B, there's no option anywhere
that I can find that refers to finalize, so I've been assuming that it
handles this automatically.

> The latter seems unlikely, given the number of different
> tools you've tried, but could the discs have been left somewhere too
> hot at some point?

No, most of these are brand new disks. Already five today.

I've just tried updating to the latest (testing) version of k3b, 1.0.5,
and I burnt another coaster.

This is very frustrating.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Tyler

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