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? -- Patrick Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] ne4po (at) arrl (dot) net Amateur Radio: NE4PO "Crank the amp to 11, this needs more cowbell - and a llama wouldn't hurt either" "Your arguments are an odd mix of overly optimistic on one side and overly pessimistic on the other" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
