[cumbria_lug] verifying postal media

[Andrew Carr]

John,

The CDs I have handy are 700MB/80mins. I've not burnt an Ubuntu ISO for a few versions (using the Wubi installer instead) but I don't recall any problems in the past. 

Are you able to burn ISOs smaller than 700MB? Also, is it the burning of the ISO that fails or is it when it comes to booting from it? Can you burn other types of data to CDs (documents, music etc)?

Hope this helps

Andrew
Carlisle




On 18 Jun 2011, at 21:18, John Patterson <john at johnpatterson.plus.com> wrote:

> What (maximum) capacity CD are you using?  I have NEVER been able to burn an ISO successfully and I suspect that this may be due to the CDs that I have in stock.  All the Ubuntu downloads that I make seem to be larger than commonly available blank CDs.  According to Wikipeadia the specification for CDs may be larger capacity.  Using DVDs didn't work.
> 
> I use magazine disks for installation and re-installation and not a burned ISO.
> 
> John Patterson
> PENRITH
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Im new to the group, have been using Fedora for a while but largely as a
>> menial desktop user.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any suggestions about how you can verify the contents
>> of postal media (not downloaded ISOs) using the published checksums?
>> 
>> Ive tried creating an ISO from the postal media and verifying it but
>> this fails. This is either not the way to do it or ive got a bum disk :(
>> 
>> Any ideas please
>> Andy
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