On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 16:31 +0930, josh wrote: > Hi, > > When one has a problem with any GNU/Linux distribution and goes to the > Internet for help, one is always a. assured that there is loads of help > available and b. directed to a maze of mailing lists where any search > immediately returns at least a million hits. This is certainly the case > with Debian. > > Worse, almost every entry in those lists refers to attempting to perform > some complex technical activity, usually with a root terminal, and is > studded with abstruse technical terms. Trying to read through even a > subset of those entries, obtained by severely narrowing the search > terms, takes hours. And narrowing the terms may just have excluded the > only relevant entry. > > Look at my latest frustration: > > I have downloaded 'wheezy' and created a CD from the Iso image. When I > attempt to boot from the CD the screen image comes up, I respond to a > few options, then the system reports unable to read from the CD - which > it has, of course, been doing. > > I have created a second CD - same problem. Downloaded the file again and > used that to create a third CD - same problem. I have tried these CD's > on two different machines, one of which faultlessly runs the current > version of gnewsense and the other puppy linux. Same result. > > This is such an elementary failure that it must be happening to lots of > people. The CDs are all OK - I can open them, see their contents, unzip > packages, read any readable files. My CD readers are obviously working > just fine. > > I have so far spent two days trying to find some reference to this > problem in your lists. > > Thank you for patiently reading this. My point is that I have a very > basic problem that must be happening to dozens of other people, yet I am > finding it impossible to discover the answer. And so must they be. > > Is there any way to find the answers to simple, basic problems without > becoming immersed in millions of abstruse technical queries by people > who are doing something other than following the very basic installation > installation steps given on your own website? > > Am I missing something obvious here? > > Regards, > > Josh. > ________________________________________________________
Well I'm gonna ask the obvious: Did you burn it as a ".iso file" or did you burn it as an image, which is what should have been done. Hope this helps, as Ive made than error before my self. john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1399647244.14642.2.ca...@beast.physicswiki.net
