cant get cd to work

omg i have tried to burn ubuntu 7.10 like 5 times and i still cant get it to work without errors... so is there a way to just boot from the iso off an external hdd or some other way without burning it to a cd?

 

So you trying to burn at 52x or what?..

Ubuntu have forums.. ask them

 

iv asked on ubuntu forums but they say the same thing. burn it at lowest speed check md5 sum ect ect ect i have done all that over and over again and it still doesnt work

 

OK.. fair enough.. (I found the ubuntu forums very unhelpful.. seems like it is full of new and inexperienced users)

It isn't reading at all I take it.. just spinning and spinning and nothing happening..

Is this in a dvd drive by any chance?.. if so try a plain old cd-rom drive.. for some reason linux isn't keen on booting from dvd drives sometimes.

They suggested checking in your bios for the correct boot device I suppose~?

Just out of interest exactly how did you burn the cd? You did burn it as an image, not just drag and drop the iso file....

 

yes it is a dvd drive. and it is pretty new :S i tried burning it on a different computer (again with a dvd drive) and it didnt work. i've tried burning the cd and dvd version. i dont have a cd-rom drive so that isnt an option. i might try a different version of linux to see if there is something wrong with the iso on the server. (doubt it tho)

first time i burned it the settings were 4x using imgburn and it did boot up but i clicked check cd for errors and it found 13

second same thing but it found 18 errors

third time it found 16 (i dont understand why they all have a different number of errors)

then i tried nero burn it at 8x and it found 138 (i think) and this was the dvd version

then i tried infarecorder and i used the tutorial on their website and it found 6 errors

then i tried imgburn again and more errors

so i am not making a data disk because it does boot up and if i explore the cd in windows it shows a bunch of files not just the iso

 

cool.. I think it's the dvd drive giving you problems.. You could try the sabayon i386 version.. I know that will boot and install brilliantly from a dvd.

You could always try putting a minimal netinstall iso on a usb drive and booting from that.. there are guides around for just that on the ubuntu forums somewhere. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/01/25/usb-x-ubuntu-610/

Don't know why some hardware doesn't like linux boot disks from a dvd drive, but it's common enough to almost be a stock fault.

Oh.. BTW.. it's fine to burn a netinstall linux iso to a cd-rw or dvd-rw as well.

 

do i just put the iso file and boot from usb? or do i have to do something with the iso file?

 

Check the link.. My systems don't boot from usb

 

thats to install it on a flash drive... not from one

 

I can work it out from there.. you put a live distro like ubuntu (which has a live cd option.. ubuntu-live?) on the flashdrive and run it as live.. there is an install option accessible from the live distro once it is running.. so you partition the HDD /dev/hda with gparted into /(root) /home and /swap.

Then you run the installer from the usb with the target as dev/hda1 and voila.. :lol: Install grub to the MBR (dev/hda0) and reboot.. that should bring you to a fully functional basic install which you can update and add to.

real technical, and not done by me.. either that or look for a dvd distro download.. sabayon, and I think both suse and debian have dvd releases.

Didn't know I knew so much :lol: