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| Re: I give up trying to write iso file :( |
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Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:04:08 -080 |
"Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2008.03.25.18.38.31.151679@yahoo.com...
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:59:32 -0800, QUESTedder wrote:
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>> "Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:13u7avm429db9b@news.supernews.com...
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>>> The Roxio software has the word "File" in the upper left
corner. Click
>>> on that and a menu drops down. Click on the item which says
"Create -
>>> or
>>> Burn - a CD from an image". An ISO file is an
"image".
>>
>> Hi.
>> I tried that 4 times and wasted 4 disks
>> it stops at 10% and does not go further
>> this has never happened to any disk before in the past year
>
> It is quite possible that your downloads have been corrupted, particularly
> if you used Internet Exploder for the downloads. Either use Firefox
I use firefox.
This is getting too complicated.
Why can't they just make an .EXE file for the linux systems and click:
Install !!
No need to answer.
I'm sure the answer is complicated.
If it takes me a week and I can't even write the download so far.
I'm not sure I want linux
or
> the BSD ftp client accessible from the cmd.exe shell.
>
> To test the integrity of your images use the md5.exe utility available
> here:
>
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/
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> Most, if not all, Linux image download sites provide an MD5 checksum file
> in the same directory where the images are found. "Type" that
file and
> compare the hash with the one provided by executing
>
>> md5 name_of_image.iso
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| Re: I give up trying to write iso file :( |
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Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:33:13 -050 |
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:04:08 -0800, edder wrote:
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> "Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:pan.2008.03.25.18.38.31.151679@yahoo.com...
>> It is quite possible that your downloads have been corrupted,
particularly
>> if you used Internet Exploder for the downloads. Either use Firefox
>
> I use firefox.
> This is getting too complicated.
> Why can't they just make an .EXE file for the linux systems and click:
> Install !!
> No need to answer.
> I'm sure the answer is complicated.
> If it takes me a week and I can't even write the download so far.
> I'm not sure I want linux
>
>
>
> or
>> the BSD ftp client accessible from the cmd.exe shell.
>>
>> To test the integrity of your images use the md5.exe utility available
>> here:
>>
>> http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/
>>
>> Most, if not all, Linux image download sites provide an MD5 checksum
file
>> in the same directory where the images are found. "Type"
that file and
>> compare the hash with the one provided by executing
>>
>>> md5 name_of_image.iso
>>
Did you *test* the integrity of the images as I suggested?
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