DVD creation for Iso download.
David
dgboles at comcast.net
Sun May 24 23:46:32 UTC 2009
On 5/24/2009 6:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 24 May 2009, craig morroni wrote:
>> If one can't go to the fedoraproject.org website and not get a corrupt
>> image, where does one go? Has anyone else downloaded this site image
>> and getting results (i.e. the ability to load the OS)?
>>
>> I have downloaded the image to two different computers from this website.
>>
>> John Aldrich wrote:
>>> Did you verify the hash to make sure you'd not gotten a corrupted image?
>>> That's what it sounds like happened.
>
> 2 questions. The most important being 'how' did you download it. Windows
> stuff is very fond of treating any download as a text download, and it will
> conveniently convert any carriage returns in finds into linefeed+carriage
> returns in order to match the windows way of doing things. It is NOT a
> mistake in their eyes, and they take great delight in having screwed up and
> made non-usable, yet another binary download just because downloading a binary
> just HAS to be a pirated copy of windows _as_ _they_ _see_ _it_.
Been a while for you has it not? :-) Windows downloads files just like
Linux. Has for many, many years. Did before too. It was normally PEBCAK
that messed things up back then.
> These downloads all have the ability to be checked with a check program, and
> it could be either sha1sum or md5sum. sha1sum is several times more secure
> than md5sum, but md5sum will also catch 99.9999999999% of the errors. So,
> check your download using one of those utilities, and if the copy you
> downloaded tests good, then the burner program should work IF you tell it to
> burn the file using that file as an iso image.
That can be done in Windows also. I you, the OP, care I will point you
to the application locations.
> If, when the burned disk is reloaded into the drive, you see a single file of
> the same name as the one you burnt, THAT BURN IS WRONG. You should be seeing
> a directory listing of what is on the cd, not another copy of the file you
> burnt. The iso image is exactly that, a complete, self contained filesystem
> that when mounted using the iso9660 option as the filesystem, shows you the
> contents of that filesystem. And if your bios can boot from the cd, it should
> do so automatically on the reboot.
The OP is running Windows Gene. He needs answers that fits his current OS.
--
David
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