Debian Installation :: Installation - Burn A DVD Instead Of A CD?
Nov 9, 2010can I burn a DVD instead of a CD? And another question is how to ensure my installation disk is virus free? Because my windows now is full of virus.
View 4 Repliescan I burn a DVD instead of a CD? And another question is how to ensure my installation disk is virus free? Because my windows now is full of virus.
View 4 RepliesI have been facing lot of problems installing debian with missing firmware until I found this file: URL....which I suppose it will include the missing firmware (bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw).I would like to ask what's the best way to burn the file on a DVD and make it bootable? any recommended free tool on Microsoft Windows?
View 2 Replies View RelatedLooking at the versions of Squeeze available on Live CD's from live.Debian.net I noticed a Rescue CD. I decided to download and burn the 386 version in order to get a look at it. I did so and checked the MD5Sum. It indicated a good download. I then used k3b (which I prefer because it has proven to be somewhat more reliable than Brasero) to burn the iso file. I did it at the lowest speed k3b allows (10X for CDs) and asked for verification of the burn. The disk was verified.I then booted the disk and the disk failed to load citing a read error at block 144640, sector 1157120.
I downloaded another version of the same iso file and again checked the MD5Sum, which was good. I again burned with k3b in the same manner as above and got the exactly the same error.I have had no indication of any problem with my TSST CD/DVD drive and I doubt very much that two consecutive Memorex CDs would be bad. What am I missing here?One other question: Is there a way to check the MD5sum on a disk that has been burned? Should it be the same as the MD5Sum shown for the iso file? I see that I can check the MD5Sum for individual files on the burned CD. Given the very large number of files, which one might it make sense to check?
Do I need to burn all 8 DVDs to install Debian? Is there a simple way that I can just burn a small bootable CD/DVD/USB Flash Drive, and add upon everything else I need afterwards by Internet?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a clean Linux box on which I want to install Fedora 10.I downloaded the 3.6GB ISO file (Fedora-10-i386-DVD) onto my Windows Vista machine, and then installed ISO Recorder, with which I burned the image to a DVD.I was surprised that the image took only about 10 minutes to burn, maybe less.When I then tried to install Fedora 10 on the Linux box from the DVD, after a minute of checking devices and such, it says "Error loading operating system." It goes no further.I'm thinking that the technique I used to burn ISO into the DVD was insufficient. I followed the instructions I found in the ISO readme for burning with the ISO Recorder V2 Power Toy:Obtain and install the ISO Recorder power toy from the
1. In the file manager Explorer, right click on the first Fedora ISO file.2. In the context menu, select Copy image to CD.3. Follow the steps given by the CD Recording Wizard pop-up.4. Repeat for the remaining ISO files.Actually, the ISO Recorder I downloaded said nothing about being a "power toy"--it was ISO Recorder V3.1 - for Windows Vista/Windows 7. But the wizard gave no choice of specifying which in the ISO were boot code vs. package code. It was basically a one-click burn. I just selected Image File (Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso) and clicked Next. I expected there would be a step for specifying something about boot code. Or, when you install Fedora from
Recently, I've started to use Ubuntu operating system.. the last version 10.04 LTS. I downloaded the .ISO image file from the site and burnt a CD to use it back, but I was wondering now after I installed my Ubuntu and made all updates and upgrades to the applications and added all packages that might be useful for me, can or can't I burn the present system with all the add-ons that I've added on DVD/CD?? Instead of using the old CD that I made which is free of all packages and necessary programs.. or at least, is not there downloadable files from the internet that allow me to install the packages and the programs offline!! Considering that I might not be able to have an internet connection..
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a question regarding ubuntu installation. When I burn the ubuntu installation iso file to a CD-R, does it close the CD-R disc at the end(i.e. prevent writing more data to disc) or can I append more data to the disc in another session?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to install Ubuntu Server on a test server at work. So I downloaded the .ISO from Ubuntu's website and burned it to a CD using InfraRecorder at 12x. It booted fine, but it failed a disk integrity check.
Tried to check the md5 of the ISO by mounting it vCdControlTool (I'm running Windows XP Pro on my workstation) and opening the md5sum file... and it was huge! Like 128 lines huge... I tried using md5summer (and later md5 check) to check it anyway and it returned a bunch of errors. So i redownloaded the ISO and burned a new disc. Same error.
Now I'm pretty sure I'm not doing the md5 check right, but either way I've downloaded the ISO twice and burned three copies now and all have given me the same error.
Trying to install on an old Dell workstation with P4, 384mb 333MHz ram, and a 20 gig HDD.
I live in Bulwer in the southern drak and am still running 9.10. Its no longer supported and I need to upgrade rather urgently. There is no way I can download the software as I do not even get 3g in the area and the vodacom cell is overloaded at best of times. Is there anyone in Pietermaritzburg / Howick area that has the latest version and is willing to burn me a CD?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a distro, in iso, that I want to make into a bootable DVD. what can I use....open source
View 2 Replies View RelatedI read in the F11 install guide that you can download a install iso image and then do an internet install. Since my F11 DVD hasn't arrived yet; I downloaded that ISO ; and figured it'd be a quicker install anyway, since that way I'd avoid having to download all the updates after the DVD install.I have a USB CD-RW drive attached to my laptop, currently running F7. Almost all of the instructions I see for burning a CD image are for Win users and Win software. I did download Brasero and it's acting flaky; it seems to want to unmount my CDRW drive, even when I'm logged in as root; so it doesn't give me that option to burn to that disk.
I found K3B, but that's for KDE and I'm using Gnome -- is there any good CD burning software (with a link please?) I can use?
I downloaded peppermintos as a replacement for ubuntu on my laptop. Now i can't burn it to a dvd. I'm using GnomeBaker and I get " /dev/sr0: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 0". Is there a way to fix this, or even better, a way to run the iso straight from the hard drive.
View 3 Replies View Relatedhave previously burnt many iso Ubntu disks with no problems but evry time I try whether Linux or win I cannot boot from the disk. The burnt disk shows separate files rather than a single iso. I've tried them on 3 different computers with the first boot device set to CD and they all boot normally into Grub (except the netbook which only has XP).
View 4 Replies View Relatedi just added a new storage disk, and i can still boot the old one with ubuntu 10.10.
I want to install ubuntu on the new disk using the existing install.
Don't want to burn a CD or go hunt for a pen drive.
I want to upgrade from Feisty Fawn - unsupported 7.04 to the downloaded 10.10 which I've saved a s an iso on the desktop. The help pages walk through the procedure but using a later version of Ubuntu which does nt match 7.04 - simple question - how can O burn the iso and the re-install 10.10 over-writing 7.04
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'd like to know, if there is more recent ISO to be download to burn the FC11 Installation DVD. I could get around this Ndvidia graphic installation problem where I am getting a command line system only.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI've downloaded the ISO file but not sure if we need an 800 MB because i am trying with active ISO burner and it can not burn the disc.
Please tell me, this is the first time i am planning to use linux. I am a windows user.
I have Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope running on my home PC (dual boot with Win XP) and have received notification that this will no longer be supported and I should upgrade to 11.04. I have a slow and costly internet connection at home and don't want to download the upgrade directly onto my computer there.Is it possible to download the upgrade somewhere else and burn to a CD to run in my home computer? I see I can do this for a new install but was wondering if it is possible for an upgrade?
View 2 Replies View RelatedPreviously I have Centos 5.3 installed. Eventually I upgraded the systems to Centos 5.4 Now is it possible to generate an ISO and burn into a DVD to make a new copy of Centos 5.4 installation disk? This is far better than downloading.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIf I were to install the current daily build of 10.10 (cd) will there be a live update that can be installed on Oct 10? Or do I need to burn the newer 10.10 version on that day and install again by cd?
View 2 Replies View Relatedi've just burned a livecd (fedora 11), but it doesn't work correctly.it says after i hit boot:
BUFFER I/O error on device sr0 logical block 352328
and then something else, which is similar so i didn't write it down.i read on bugzilla, that is should try to append the boot command with pci=nomsi, but it doesn't work for me
I have installed Debian maybe 30 times over the years since about 2003, stable, testing and Sid on two different desktops and two different laptops. The only problem I have ever had is sometimes with a flaky daily build. It is one of my favorite distros.
BUT, I am totally frustrated is trying to install to a USB. I have followed the manual step by step about 6 times in the past two weeks. The result is always the same. The installation fails to find an installation iso image. Yes, I know the iso image and the hd-media vmlinuz and initrd.gz files are supposed to be the same version.
File: debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso from: [url]
Files: vmlinuz and initrd.gz from: [url]
The USB boots to a Language selection screen and proceeds through the Keyboard selection screen with no problems.
The next step which searches for an installation iso image fails.
Skipping that step and trying to load installer components from iso image also fails.
Searching the entire PC for an installation iso image also fails. (I even copied the netinst iso image to the HD root directory.)
Debian and debian based distros issue has a issue that has come to make it self aware to me when I was trying to burn a video on my hard drive with braseo and it won't let me burn more than 4.4 gigs to a dvd with 4.7 gigs of free space even a file that is over the 4.4 gig limit by a megabyte with windows i didn't have this problem. One more thing I have 16 gig flash drive and on debian and debian based distros i can only use 13.1 gigs of it but on fedora I can use all 16 gigs.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have and old PC and for last years i had Debian Lenny on that and it was working great but after the Squeeze release, i downloaded the first CD image and did a fresh installation but after this it boots up with no problem (i must say since in Squeeze installation the option of creating a floppy diskette was not working properly i use SuperGrubDisk2 to boot the Debian), but few seconds after logging in, the system hangs (or maybe only the X11 since i use a historic nVidia TNT2 Riva graphic card!).
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have not been able to write to DVDs since the install except for once when luck seemed to play more a part than anything else. Does anyone have a fix for this?Well, after letting it sit and sit and sit, it looks like it does write the data. But, it's writing about 1/2 of a DVD for just 2 500K files.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI installed Squeeze without a DE. Then I installed gdm and rhythmbox, but rhythmbox won't even react to the Create CD button. I have the brasero-cdrkit and cdrdao packages installed for brasero to burn audio CD's which works perfectly. I have the rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder package installed too, but no go. The CD spins up, but no dialogs at all from rhythmbox
View 8 Replies View RelatedFor many moons I had no problem burning *.iso images on dvds on my Debian Lenny system.
I simply inserted a blank writable DVD disk into the burner followed the directions on the dialog window and it worked. Can't even remember the name of the software.
But, it's now stopped working.
1. I now get a small dialog that says "Blank DVD Inserted ... Make DVD."
2. I click on "Make DVD"
3. I get cd dvd creator. But window is blank; write to disk is grayed out-- as is "files... Browse Folders."
- This is not what I remember... and not all clear what to do next.
4. I tried installing K3B. But, it tells me it can't find a cd/dvd device on my system. But I have two a Sony DRX-830U connected through USB and generic installed on my system.
I have an internal ATAPI dvd burner/cd burner. It mounts whatever media I drop in just fine (cd or DVD), and will burn to CD media without a hitch. However, it seems to refuse to actually burn DVD's It has worked before when I was running PClinuxOS but started to burn coasters on an intermittant basis. I was having other issues with PC linuxOS so I have tried a few different distos since. All distros will read media and burn to CD, but I still can't burn a DVD. I have tried k3b, Braseo, and xfburn What error messages should I look for?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am new to Linux currently using Lubuntu , Puppy etc . What I did with Lubuntu I downloaded iso image burnt it into a CD and boot from that CD thats it. Apparently Debian has no iso download link. It is asking me to install with jigdo (I am not familiar with it). I dont want to use a CD with minimal install (because of slow internet speed) How to download an iso CD image
View 2 Replies View RelatedI haven't used Debian in 1 year or so and would like to know if there is any possible way to do a fresh installation of Debian Lenny or Squeeze (either or) and not install Exim? I get to the package selection section of the Debian Installer and I de-select "Desktop Environment" & "Standard System" so nothing is selected and it still be default installs Exim. Is there a way to omit this from the install?
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