basic help with cd

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: basic help with cd
started by: intron

Posted by intron on Aug. 05 2004,17:08

Hi all,

I know this has been covered before but perhaps I am having a slightly different problem. I have downloaded the latest .iso of DSL and have tried to burn it to a CD in a number of ways. Primarily, I used Nero on an XP box to burn the image to a disk. When that didn't work I started fooling around with variations of it such as putting the contents of the Knoppix folder in the root directory of the CD, etc. Unfortunately, no matter how I burned it, my computer just zooms right by it and starts up the OS on the hd. To make sure that I wasn't being completely stupid, I downloaded the latest Knoppix and burned a CD of it in the same way I did for DSL. My computer picked it right up and booted in Knoppix - I am posting this from inside Knoppix actually.

Any ideas on what might be going on would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

mark

Posted by AwPhuch on Aug. 05 2004,21:31

Did you do a md5sum on the iso?

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by intron on Aug. 07 2004,01:04

Quote (AwPhuch @ Aug. 05 2004,17:31)

Did you do a md5sum on the iso?

Brian
AwPhuch

Brian,

I hadn't thought of that (doh) but I went and checked and it reported back that it was OK. Thanks for the suggestion though. I will have more time to futz with it this weekend, perhaps I will figure it out then.

Thanks,

Mark

Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 08 2004,02:28

Your computer may have a problem with syslinux.

Do you get a brief flash about "syslinux" at the top of your screen before the computer decides to load up your hard disk-based OS?

If so, you could try creating a boot floppy. Otherwise, you may need to wait until DSL version 0.8.0 comes out.

Posted by intron on Aug. 09 2004,06:23

Quote (cbagger01 @ Aug. 07 2004,22:28)

Thanks for the help guys. It appears to be working now. I didn't do anything differently than with the first time I burned it. Originally, I only burned it 1 time the "right" way and then I started to fool around with moving stuff around. This weekend, I tried to do it again, "just in case". Low and behold it works fine. Maybe there was something wrong with the CD or just a general error in writing the disk, I dont know. But, the bottom line is that it is working. Thanks for the suggestions!!!

Now, on to installing it to the hard drive.

mark

Posted by duracell on Aug. 10 2004,14:10

ello, ermm....i downloaded damnsmalllinux, live CD (ISO), i have no idea how to burn it onto a CD so it will boot linux up, i think i have to set it as an image, but im not sure how to do dat either ( using nero buring rom )
cheerz for any replies

Posted by regsx on Aug. 10 2004,22:24

I use Burncdcc ... all it does is burn iso's

always check the Read Verify box and it will check the burn for errors

< http://www.snapfiles.com/get/burncdcc.html >

< http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html >

you can use cd2iso to calculate an md5sum of the cd
if it burned pefectly, the md5sum should be the same as the iso's md5sum

< http://www.dubaron.com/cd2iso/ >

you can calculate the md5sum of a cd in linux by typing
md5sum /dev/cdrom
if the md5sum is the same as the iso's md5sum, it's a perfect burn
if you get read errors or a different md5sum,
it still may be a perfect burn ... or not
google for ways to get around the buggy drivers