On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:03:35PM -0700, Joshua Anthony wrote: > 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?
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