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Re: I give up trying to write iso file :(

Re: I give up trying to write iso file :(
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:
>>
>> "Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:13u7avm429db9b@news.supernews.com...
>
>>> 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/
>
> 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 :(
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:33:13 -050
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:04:08 -0800, edder wrote:
> 
> "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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