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