On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Tom Poe <tom...@meltel.net> wrote:

> I bring up stuff on my computer, and it has an icon with CD-RW/DVD-ROM
> drive.  I downloaded a lenny i386 iso image, and used brasero to burn it to
> a Memorex DVD+RW disc.  I shut down computer, started computer, got a
> blinking cursor for a few seconds, and then moved to ubuntu (installed
> operating system).  Does this sound like I have to go buy some other discs,
> because my drive is too old, and can't read the DVD?
>

One of my old Dell's DVD-ROM drives only reads DVD-R discs, not DVD+R
discs.  Any chance you're using +R?  If so, try using -R and see if it is
read that way.

Mark

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