I have used GNU Linux for years - trying out several distros, all by
downloading the Iso file and writing to CD. Ubuntu, Slackware, Puppy,
and Gnewsense all install just fine after simply right-clicking on the
file and selecting write to CD. No clever stuff with the terminal -
just point and click. But this time it just doesn't work.
For those who didn't notice, I downloaded the file twice, making two
CD's from the first download and one from the second - just in case
anything was corrupted. All the CD's can be opened and their contents
displayed - and all files in readable form can be read.
I would happily stay with Gnewsense but since I recently installed the
latest version, I can't get a couple of much used applications that
worked perfectly with the previous version to run. So I thought I'd
try Debian instead, using exactly the same process, on the same
machine, that I used to successfully install Gnewsense.
This is not rocket science. It's not an abstruse technical problem -
it must be plain old dumbass misunderstanding by me.
Doesn't anyone have a simple answer?