Re: Confusion

["John W. Foster" <jfoster81747@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 16:31 +0930, josh wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> When one has a problem with any GNU/Linux distribution and goes to the
> Internet for help, one is always a. assured that there is loads of help
> available and b. directed to a maze of mailing lists where any search
> immediately returns at least a million hits. This is certainly the case
> with Debian.
> 
> Worse, almost every entry in those lists refers to attempting to perform
> some complex technical activity, usually with a root terminal, and is
> studded with abstruse technical terms. Trying to read through even a
> subset of those entries, obtained by severely narrowing the search
> terms, takes hours. And narrowing the terms may just have excluded the
> only relevant entry.
> 
> Look at my latest frustration:
> 
> I have downloaded 'wheezy' and created a CD from the Iso image. When I
> attempt to boot from the CD the screen image comes up, I respond to a
> few options, then the system reports unable to read from the CD - which
> it has, of course, been doing. 
> 
> I have created a second CD - same problem. Downloaded the file again and
> used that to create a third CD - same problem. I have tried these CD's
> on two different machines, one of which faultlessly runs the current
> version of gnewsense and the other puppy linux. Same result.
> 
> This is such an elementary failure that it must be happening to lots of
> people. The CDs are all OK - I can open them, see their contents, unzip
> packages, read any readable files. My CD readers are obviously working
> just fine.
> 
> I have so far spent two days trying to find some reference to this
> problem in your lists.
> 
> Thank you for patiently reading this. My point is that I have a very
> basic problem that must be happening to dozens of other people, yet I am
> finding it impossible to discover the answer. And so must they be.
> 
> Is there any way to find the answers to simple, basic problems without
> becoming immersed in millions of abstruse technical queries by people
> who are doing something other than following the very basic installation
> installation steps given on your own website?
> 
> Am I missing something obvious here?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Josh.
> 
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Well I'm gonna ask the obvious:
Did you burn it as a ".iso file" or did you burn it as an image, which is what should have been done.
Hope this helps, as Ive made than error before my self.
john